Who would have known it’s so threatening out there!

The Tech Industry is an important part of the state economy but there will be no social democratic utopia. Pigs will not fly and the High Tech Oligarchs will not make all of us richer.

When the economy goes into the ditch again as it inevitably will, this state will be swimming in debt, bankruptcy, foreclosed homes and people without jobs. Oh I forgot, it already is.

The surveillance issue is a big problem too. The face recognition technology will let them catalog EVERYONE’S face. Inevitably that will go into your Homeland Security profile along with DNA, fingerprints, medical records, bank records, phone records, tax returns, etc.

When the local Polizei have fully deployed their growing drone arsenal they will be able to silently invade our privacy any time, anywhere. Then to make things worse they also have sophisticated snooping and hacking software, red light cameras, automated license plate scanners, thermal imaging devices, laser tracking, radar tracking, GPS tracking, etc.

Privacy is an endangered species being hunted to extinction by our increasingly authoritarian government and it’s Tech Industry crony capitalist allies.

I’m not so sure I want to live in a place where 38 million are mostly dependent upon the creativity and beneficence of a dozen or so MENSA members who live at the southern edge of San Francisco Bay.