it streaches what several techs could do and ties them together. if hillary had won this could have gotten the green light to begin development with fed cash. Easiest way to guarantee a democrat victory? kill off all the republicans. No boots on the ground, no garrison, just a promise of death if you think the wrong thing. The first steps of development can be seen in china's social credit score system. If you are friends or family members of someone who makes a wrong post or buys bad things, your score goes down, and if it drops low enough you can't buy a house, a car, get hired for higher paying jobs, or live in middle class or higher apartments. once it matures, executions could be come automated, as the most worthless parts of society are culled to remove their drain on society. Who decides where that line is? an AI. Good luck sleeping tonight.