This story only gets worse. It has been known for years that AT&T has had a fascist-type bonding with the NSA. Early revelations brought outrage from Congress and citizens alike, and court rulings supposedly blocked expansion. Now it is revealed that AT&T/NSA collects virtually 100% of all Internet traffic in the U.S.
Technopopulism is rising at an alarming rate in Europe and England and can be seen in the United States as well. Articles describing the phenomenon are appearing almost weekly in the foreign press, and it is being discussed in leading academic think-tanks like The Brookings Institution.
Technocracy in China is going to be exported to the entire world in the form of 'governance'. This is the science of social engineering, and it has already blanketed China with ubiquitous surveillance and manipulation through social credit scoring. Technocrat and global scholar Parag Khanna predicted, ”We are building this global society without a global leader. Global order is no longer some-thing that can be dictated or controlled from the top down. Globalization is itself the order.”
Elon Musk's dream of Technocrat Utopia is falling apart as he scoffs at critics while business declines. Musk's grandfather was the head of the Technocracy, Inc.'s movement in Canada during the 1930s, and it ultimately met the same fate.
Talk is increasing about breaking up the Technocrat cabal at Google as it continues to gain hegemony over thought and propaganda. If successful, it will end up a failure as was the case with anti-trust actions in the past. Technocrats will not play political games.
AI as a service applied to cheap drones means that any law enforcement agency can now have their own fleet of drones to spy on citizens. Of course, they will catch lawbreakers from time to time, but the rights and privacy of innocent civilians will be trampled.
The Brookings Institution is an elitist, Trilateral Commission connected think tank in Washington. When they write on Technopopulism, you can bet that it has arrived and had better be considered, because Italy is now a model of what is happening in the U.S.
Super-Technocrat Micheal Bloomberg is changing the face of philanthropy by promoting data-driven giving toward projects that promote Technocracy. Most philanthropy occurs without scrutiny or fanfare, but hundreds of millions of dollars per year can change the face of a nation within just a few years.
Castellani believes that "far from being foes, technocracy and populism are increasingly becoming allies in a war against a common enemy: representative democracy and traditional politicians." Whether intentional or not, a major European nation was just flipped into Technocracy by Populists.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and culture, and had no problem in negotiating the sale of personal data to Chinese companies. Technocracy transcends national borders and cultural differences because it is the same science and technology that works everywhere. In Facebook's instance, "follow the data, follow the power."