AI as a service applied to cheap drones means that any law enforcement agency can now have their own fleet of drones to spy on citizens. Of course, they will catch lawbreakers from time to time, but the rights and privacy of innocent civilians will be trampled.
The Brookings Institution is an elitist, Trilateral Commission connected think tank in Washington. When they write on Technopopulism, you can bet that it has arrived and had better be considered, because Italy is now a model of what is happening in the U.S.
Super-Technocrat Micheal Bloomberg is changing the face of philanthropy by promoting data-driven giving toward projects that promote Technocracy. Most philanthropy occurs without scrutiny or fanfare, but hundreds of millions of dollars per year can change the face of a nation within just a few years.
Castellani believes that "far from being foes, technocracy and populism are increasingly becoming allies in a war against a common enemy: representative democracy and traditional politicians." Whether intentional or not, a major European nation was just flipped into Technocracy by Populists.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and culture, and had no problem in negotiating the sale of personal data to Chinese companies. Technocracy transcends national borders and cultural differences because it is the same science and technology that works everywhere. In Facebook's instance, "follow the data, follow the power."
Techno-populism, a curious blend of Populism and Technocracy, is rising in Europe and is being openly discussed. However, the same phenomenon is seen in the U.S. with Trump (populism) partnering with Technocrats. Because the Technocrats wind up being the only people able to run complex systems, they end up with the upper hand.
Whitehead clearly makes the case that government eyes are watching us, but he misses the Technocrats who are doing the watching and why they are watching. Technocracy is the Utopian goal, technology is the means to get there and data is the grease that covers the skids.
'Evidence-based medicine' is already turning the medical profession upside-down and dehumanizing patient care, but the application of AI to predict treatment and outcomes is several orders of magnitude worse. If Google wrongly predicts your imminent demise, will treatment be pulled away to save money?
For whatever reason, one in four have deleted at least one social media account in the last year. This is sending Technocrat social media managers on a frenzied search for a treatment to 'stop the bleeding', but rebuilding trust may be beyond their understanding.
As currently created, crypto-currencies are serving a purpose of showing what will not work as digital currency, but at the same time, central major banks are intent on creating a replacement that will work. By nature, Technocrats will use technology to solve all of their problems, and a cashless global economy obviously begs for some sort of digital currency that is accepted by all.