Despite rhetoric about consumer privacy, Technocrats at Facebook are busy working on even more sinister and intrusive methods of spying on people. Their feigned deference to public opinion is hollow. Technocrats have no sense of ethics or respect for the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
It is absurd to blame a corporations - even big oil companies - for global warming. but that didn't deter San Francisco and Oakland from doing so. Now, their suits have been thrown out of the U.S. District court. Perhaps these two cities should be held liable for the moral depravity and political corruption for which they are widely known.
Is a robot worth more than a human? Apparently. The banking industry will soon be inundated with robots, displacing hundreds of thousands of human employees around the world, redefining the term "personal banking' as an oxymoron.
The power of the city is demonstrated in Orlando's dumping Amazon's Big Brother facial recognition software because it could lead to a surveillance state. Competitive software is offered by Microsoft, Google and Nvidia.
This story only gets worse. It has been known for years that AT&T has had a fascist-type bonding with the NSA. Early revelations brought outrage from Congress and citizens alike, and court rulings supposedly blocked expansion. Now it is revealed that AT&T/NSA collects virtually 100% of all Internet traffic in the U.S.
The Founding Fathers provided the tools to right the Republic and put the ship of state back on course. No other nation has that opportunity, so the people of the world can only hope the American people take it.
Technopopulism is rising at an alarming rate in Europe and England and can be seen in the United States as well. Articles describing the phenomenon are appearing almost weekly in the foreign press, and it is being discussed in leading academic think-tanks like The Brookings Institution.
Technocracy in China is going to be exported to the entire world in the form of 'governance'. This is the science of social engineering, and it has already blanketed China with ubiquitous surveillance and manipulation through social credit scoring. Technocrat and global scholar Parag Khanna predicted, ”We are building this global society without a global leader. Global order is no longer some-thing that can be dictated or controlled from the top down. Globalization is itself the order.”
Elon Musk's dream of Technocrat Utopia is falling apart as he scoffs at critics while business declines. Musk's grandfather was the head of the Technocracy, Inc.'s movement in Canada during the 1930s, and it ultimately met the same fate.
Talk is increasing about breaking up the Technocrat cabal at Google as it continues to gain hegemony over thought and propaganda. If successful, it will end up a failure as was the case with anti-trust actions in the past. Technocrats will not play political games.