January 28, 2021

Putin is the first national leader of prominence to verbalize the idea that Big Tech companies are in direct competition with national governments to control societies. In America, the government still thinks it exercises control over Big Tech as part of society.

Saudi Arabia envisions building futuristic cities in the desert that are reminiscent of Technocracy's Technates in the 1930s, that is, fully engineered cities designed to control the people who live in them. "The Line" is the latest announcement and has to be seen to be believed.