Genius or nut? Elon Musk's grandfather was the leader of Canada's Technocracy, Inc. during the 1930s and 1940s and his influence certainly rubbed of on a young Musk. As I have warned for years, the hype of Technocracy's Utopia does not live up to reality.
Singapore is the leading city-state model for Technocracy in the world, priding itself for its masterful control over societal data. In defiance and with impunity, hackers have stolen health records including those of the Prime Minister.
Global warming fanatics suffered a major defeat when the city of New York's massive lawsuit against Big Oil was thrown out of Federal court. New York was trying to collect 'damages' from several oil giants over their role in creating global warming.
While mobile phones are certainly handy gadgets to have around, the radiation they emit can have a profound physiological impact on the human brain. The Technocrat mind that creates technology for technology's sake is seldom concerned with 'side effects'.
New AI can mimic human movement after seeing it just one time, which is how humans learn from infancy. Of course, there is no measure of intent as to why the human movement was performed in the first place. This is typical Technocrat thinking that 'why' is not as important as 'what'.
DARPA is a hotbed of Technocrats who are dedicated to pushing science beyond even science fiction to solve all battlefield problems. The neural interface it envisions will work in both directions, meaning that control over the soldiers's own brain is possible.
Technocrat practices have already taken over most of the medical industry with so-called 'evidence-based' treatments. IBM's Watson program, for instance, claims better diagnosis and treatment of cancer than highly skilled physicians. We will soon be hearing, "The algorithm will see you now..."
Technocracy uses science to perfect social engineering on a global scale, but Technocrats have no answers on how to handle displaced workers... except to just give them money. This will result in creating a new societal class of people who are unemployable and hence locked into permanent poverty.
The genie is already out of the bottle, but advanced AI researchers are now very concerned about how their creations will be used in autonomous warfare. AI is close to becoming self-replicating, meaning that rogue applications bent on killing humans could multiply until the human race is extinguished.
Technocrat social engineers, drunk on questionable and unreliable science, see human engineering as the final frontier of mankind. The door is now wide-open for the next generation to become their grand experiment.