This article appeared on the Mises Institute website in May, 2020 at the beginning of the Great Panic of 2020 (read, pandemic). By original definition, Technocracy is anti-democratic, and anti-political. It is clear that over the decades, political bodies have voluntarily given up decision-making authority to Technocrats in various fields.
Two of the largest corporate influencers, Microsoft and Salesforce, are diving into ChatGPT with total abandon, which will normalize ChatGPT throughout large and small businesses. This is transformative for life on earth and will henceforth be required in order to be competitive.
In my newest book, The Evil Twins of Technocracy and Transhumanism, I demonstrated how the central banks of the world have directly asserted themselves as the master controllers of financial and economic policies. The head of this giant snake is the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel, Switzerland. If CBDCs are implemented, it will give them Skynet-type control over humanity.
Without moral or ethical guidelines, Technocrats see no problem in treating "sentient" AI as a person with rights of personhood. If such an AI program is subsequently charged and convicted of crimes against humanity, what would the death sentence look like? Injecting a lethal computer virus? Removing its computer chips? Pulling the plug? Heady things to think about.
Building newly engineered 'Freedom Cities' from scratch would guarantee embedding the latest smart city technology used for surveillance and control. This would not make America great again, but rather would push it into the arms of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, The Great Reset and hence, Technocracy.
There apparently is no protection to safeguard the erosion of civil liberties when it comes to the government spying on its own citizens, and even more so when agencies are weaponized to cause harm to those same citizens. The Constitution has experienced " death by a thousand cuts" over the last 50 years and is perilously close to final death.
The devil is in the details. This 10-page Executive Order sounds innocuous until you get to the definitions section, where ""digital assets" is defined as "including centralized and decentralized finance platforms, or through peer-to--peer technologies." Centralized means that transaction data is transmitted to a central database for storage and analysis.
The 15-minute city is a cover for a data collection bonanza for Technocrats who would design and operate them. Cities designed for maximum "efficiency" always reveal Technocrat thinking that efficiency itself is the goal, and that maximum surveillance allows for maximum control to achieve even more efficiency. At its very root. this mechanistic thinking is anti-human.
To Technocrats, people " become nothing more than cogs in the WEF's great trans-humanist, technocratic machine." This mechanistic thinking is at the root of Technocracy, which seeks to control all resources on the planet, including humans. As such, it is anti-human and anti-civilization.
Forget 5G. 6G will be 100 times faster with 50 times the data throughput and will use frequencies in the terabit per second range. This will rival fiber optic capability. By comparison, 5G currently sends data at only gigabit speeds. 6G will have its biggest application in creating digital twins and digitizing the physical world.