> 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

> ...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 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...

And as a response, the cameras are now tiny, hidden, and multiple.

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?

Of course, I question reasoning behind clients use of our technology, and to date the purposes are universally issues of public safety: Universities, public school districts, sports stadiums, shopping malls, and so on are all highly concerned with public safety and that is the main driver of the adoption of FR.

Keep in mind, FR is not rocket science. (Hell, rocket science is not "rocket science".) It is going to continue to be developed, it is going to be ubiquitous, and the ethics of those in the industry largely define the ethics of the industry itself. If people of good conscious are not in the industry, no ethical concerns will be raised when ethically debatable clients and applications arise. I am part of the good ethics contingent.

I was thinking the same thing, ag, agtech, aquaponics, hydroponics, renewable energy powered ag, etc...food and water...most important areas of research in my opinion