Without calling it Technocracy, the author correctly sees the future of "a shell democracy run by smart machines, and a new elite of progressive but authoritarian technocrats."
The only way that Technocrat global warming alarmists can deal with opposition is to bully, belittle, marginalize, name-call, etc. There is no discussion or debate. This only proves that the entire global warming mantra is as phony as a three dollar bill.
5G companies play on the ignorance of local politicians to get what they want, and when that doesn't work, slander, bullying, smearing and label-lynching become the strategy du jour. However, 5G can only be dealt with on a local basis.
The invention of AI is comparable to the discovery of electricity: everyone in the world is using it for anything and everything. However, applications to control man are already more advanced than anything history has ever revealed.
Google may be based in Silicon Valley, but it is a global corporation with an ideology that relates to China, a Technocracy, rather than the United States, a Republic. Until this perception of Google changes, there will be no restraining them from working with Chinese Technocrats.