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So you're saying that only good comes from "social technology" while mixed things have come from "high technology", so working in social tech is "morally" better?

I think social technology has enabled the surveillance of more people than ever before in history - a more than mixed bag. Not only that, new graph theoretical approaches that come from Facebook, Google etc. can easily be used to track humans using non-social technology, as well.

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I don't see this as a good/bad/moral calculation. I see it as a practical calculation. We don't need to go into the moral domain when the cause and effect domain is capable of completely outlining the problem.

Working on high tech is dangerous as long as the world is run by warlords and the USA is a surveillance/police state. The last several rounds of high-tech have been utilized by a dynastic, authoritarian power-class to make the world a more horrible place while benefiting themselves, their families, friends, and other cronies.

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