I don't get why you think some of these are essential to "make America great again"(as if you could actually reasonably quantify why it stopped being great).
- The wall will be built. It will need sensors. The IoT crowd needs to develop better sensors than the overpriced crappy ones from the last attempt in that direction.
My understanding is that the proposal is untenable for a variety of reasons, so we probably won't see "the wall", but maybe some additional walls in some places.
- Better detection of illegal aliens is necessary. One of the biggest source of illegal immigrants is visa overstayers. For those, pictures are available from when they entered the US. Social media must be searched for them. Surveillance cameras need to be connected to cloud systems which recognize them. Police cars need very high definition cameras and face recognition to find those people so they can be deported. Deep learning systems will be needed to decide if a likely face match is worth investigation. With good automation, people will only be hassled once. Then they're either known as legal or on their way to deportation.
How does this concept not terrify you? Why do we need to go further in this direction? It sounds rational as far as achieving the goal. But the implications of spurring this development are immense. I don't get why you would willing move towards such a pervasive police state.
Trump's pitch was to stop the "race to the bottom", where Americans have to be "competitive" in wages with the cheapest countries in the world. The anti-free-trade stance and the anti-immigration stance come from that. Stem the tide of cheap labor and cheap imported goods, and wages for Americans will rise. Side effects, yes, but it might be an improvement. Few rich countries are as open to both immigration and imports as the US has been.
Whether Trump really intends to do that, or whether he'll just go for the generic Republican platform (tax cuts for the rich, few restraints on business, heavy military spending, God, guns and gays to distract the voters) remains to be seen. But that's not what he was elected to do, and he doesn't have political debts which force him to do that.
Trump talks about building infrastructure. That, he's probably serious about. He is, after all, a real estate developer, and they're a "build it and they will come" crowd.
Sometimes they don't come, and Trump has a few bankruptcies behind him. But he did get stuff built. One could do worse. Japan's solution to a slow economy is to overspend somewhat on infrastructure. That beats pouring money into the banking system.
(I didn't vote for Trump. But about half of Americans did, and they have some legitimate beefs. So I'm writing about what to do to actually fix the problems Trump was elected to solve.)
- The wall will be built. It will need sensors. The IoT crowd needs to develop better sensors than the overpriced crappy ones from the last attempt in that direction.
My understanding is that the proposal is untenable for a variety of reasons, so we probably won't see "the wall", but maybe some additional walls in some places.
- Better detection of illegal aliens is necessary. One of the biggest source of illegal immigrants is visa overstayers. For those, pictures are available from when they entered the US. Social media must be searched for them. Surveillance cameras need to be connected to cloud systems which recognize them. Police cars need very high definition cameras and face recognition to find those people so they can be deported. Deep learning systems will be needed to decide if a likely face match is worth investigation. With good automation, people will only be hassled once. Then they're either known as legal or on their way to deportation.
How does this concept not terrify you? Why do we need to go further in this direction? It sounds rational as far as achieving the goal. But the implications of spurring this development are immense. I don't get why you would willing move towards such a pervasive police state.