> were always possible before It’s a question of viability not possibility here. Dropping costs by 95+% dramatically changes things. So, you can “make a stro

> were always possible before It’s a question of viability not possibility here. Dropping costs by 95+% dramatically changes things. So, you can “make a strong business proposition” for stuff that was never going to happen with the old method. Consider the economics around scam phone calls when long distance phone calls cost more than 2$/minute. They still happened but it was vastly more targeted and therefore orders of magnitude less common. Now apply that same logic to facial recognition etc and suddenly new types of surveillance will become commonplace.