Autonomous weaponry is poised to be thrust into the military market and used by the world’s leading nations. But an expert in artificial intelligence believes…...
Sundar Pichai is a Technocrat who is so buried in his own Alice in Wonderland Utopian vision that he cannot see reality right under his nose. Google simply does not see or believe that it has any political bias. This is more dangerous than knowingly applying a political bias.
Understanding the Technocrat mind is essential to understanding the modern world. All scientists and engineers, perhaps even the majority of them, are certainly not Technocrats but all Technocrats hold the mistaken belief that all human problems can be solved through applied science.
Top researchers and scientists are being forced to resign over egregious ethical violations and conflicts of interest, but it appears that climate scientists are still getting a free pass. Climate science has been rife with purposely falsified data and the same kind of ethical breaches as found in this story.
Electric bicycle and scooter rentals are the latest craze to give urban dwellers 'alternative transportation' to eliminate carbon. Scooters in particular have cause a pandemic of injured riders. Residents in San Francisco detest these sidewalk intruders, and are moving to have them banned.
Newly imposed tariffs are forcing an important issue into the spotlight: America is dependent upon China to provide the bulk of switches, routers and circuit boards to rollout 5G. What's the problem? A leading supplier of 5G tech, Huawei, is closely tied to the Chinese government.
Thanks to carrier lobbying, twenty states have already passed legislation to strip their cities of the power to regulate 5G rollouts. Cities are fighting back with lawsuits to restore local control and ability to set fees and address health concerns. A Technocrat state Senator in Texas says, “We should keep government out of the way of technology and let technology get us all there.”
Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks in 2006, is an intellect and patriot along the order of Edward Snowden. What he calls the "open-cut harvesting the knowledge of humankind", is leading toward an AI-based scientific dictatorship, or Technocracy. This is a must read article.
Eric Schmidt, chairman of Alphabet which owns Google is also a member of the elitist Trilateral Commission. This group was singularly responsible for bringing China into the modern world in the 1970s, and then building it up to be a super-power. China is extolled as a Technocracy, praising the effectiveness of its model of governance.
Apple says it is being transparent and straight up in calculating a 'trust score' on your iOS device, but you are not able to see your own score. Furthermore, it does not appear to be an optional 'feature' that users can turn on or off at will. This is a slippery slope leading to broader invasion of privacy.