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.
The Military/Industrial Complex is full of Technocrats who believe science and technology has the answer to every problem. In many cases, the desire for anonymous killing is exacerbated by immersion into video games where avatars are blown to bits with no accountability or ethical concern for human life.
Amazon will dominate online as well as physical retail by 2025 but will force others to use its dystopian technology to compete. This system employs the most comprehensive level of surveillance imaginable, measuring eye-movement, emotions, movement within the store and everything you touch, allowing AI to build a psychological profile on every shopper.
Gamification of Trust aims to "allow the trustworthy to roam freely under heaven while making it hard for the discredited to take a single step". The system will be fully deployed to every square inch of China by 2020, just two years away. Worse, China is exporting its dystopian Technocracy to the rest of the world, including the United States.
Data mining and data fusion of disparate databases plus advanced identification technology like DNA and facial recognition, is all laser-focused on putting every citizen under the microscope for signs of dissent. Dissenters are punished and branded as enemies of the state. This same system of oppression is in its early states in America.