We can go ahead and talk about data analytics firms and Palantir and others that aren't even FRTs. The world of surveillance goes way beyond FRT, and that's a bigger question to have about our country's military-industrial complex and where these technologies even come from.
We need to again zoom out and look at the way that technology has taken over. We need to reflect on what tech solutionism means, on why we put so much money and funding in tech innovation specifically, and why we look at innovation as just being tech-prone, and not actually funding groups who work very hard on social issues to understand this technology, to create public awareness and also education on this.
I have an optimistic view of the future, even though I am very critical of this technology. We have to imagine, to think about how we can live without some of this technology, and we'll be fine.