Yes, crappy anti-social anti-commons anti-democratic supercomputing has more or less literally fueled the long tech boom, for decades now. But that is not the

Yes, crappy anti-social anti-commons anti-democratic supercomputing has more or less literally fueled the long tech boom, for decades now. But that is not the issue right now. Right now, the issue is that the power of ubiquitous surveillance crossed with contemporary compute is unprecedented and new. LA is burning and the National Guard has been called on protestors over the Governor's objections. The fate of the nation and by extension the first world is what's at stake here.