AntiTechTechie

> This could be the subject of a dystopia or a dark comedy where the free world has been taken over because could-be revolutionaries are placed on boring, pointless, mismanaged, tail-chasing projects so they have no time to think about the bigger picture or take any real action against the system.

This sounds like the current world we all live and work in...basically we have a bunch of "bullshit jobs" to occupy our time during the day and endless trash entertainment to distract us and keep us from noticing how shitty modern industrial life really is...

> What do we do when there are no more companies to which to flee, and the effects of that which we are fleeing is harming society?

Start your own company...or destroy those that are trying to destroy you

Sure, you don't think Google will find a way to identify these "problem" employees, transfer them to a pointless project or put them on something that will cause them to leave on their own accord?

Their managers could easily give them CMEs for good reason (wasting time on activist bullshit instead of doing work, etc..), essentially forcing them to leave...

> ...and to decreasing relevance, dynamism and power

Its funny how the author thinks we care about the elite's declining "relevance, dynamism and power"...as is I care about the end of the American empire.

Who are now their current residents and "citizens"

Good point...I'd like to see a flat income tax of 0% and then have taxes based on consumption

Ladder logic

"...some reports suggest a forest fire may have shut down one of the main high-voltage lines in the country, setting off a chain reaction that brought down the entire network."

What is truly scary, for those of us living in the United States anyway, is the fact that this kind of grid failure could easily happen here...The DHS (or DoD, I don't quite remember as it was a while ago) said there were something like 10-11 key substations in the U.S. that if taken down could plunge us into a cascading blackout that would last a long time...

I'm sure as the tech evolves, people will find a way to subvert it...at least one can hope

Do you ever question your line of work and what good can come from the facial recognition technology you help develop?

I'm not sure what group started it, but there was a political activist group that started destroying CCTV and speed cameras in the UK and U.S. respectively...their main goal was to make it too costly to continually have to replace the damaged cameras...I'm not sure how it went but when I read about I thought it was a great idea...especially since voting won't do much to stop the installation of these surveillance tools...