Techno-populism, a curious blend of Populism and Technocracy, is rising in Europe and is being openly discussed. However, the same phenomenon is seen in the U.S. with Trump (populism) partnering with Technocrats. Because the Technocrats wind up being the only people able to run complex systems, they end up with the upper hand.
Whitehead clearly makes the case that government eyes are watching us, but he misses the Technocrats who are doing the watching and why they are watching. Technocracy is the Utopian goal, technology is the means to get there and data is the grease that covers the skids.
'Evidence-based medicine' is already turning the medical profession upside-down and dehumanizing patient care, but the application of AI to predict treatment and outcomes is several orders of magnitude worse. If Google wrongly predicts your imminent demise, will treatment be pulled away to save money?
For whatever reason, one in four have deleted at least one social media account in the last year. This is sending Technocrat social media managers on a frenzied search for a treatment to 'stop the bleeding', but rebuilding trust may be beyond their understanding.
As currently created, crypto-currencies are serving a purpose of showing what will not work as digital currency, but at the same time, central major banks are intent on creating a replacement that will work. By nature, Technocrats will use technology to solve all of their problems, and a cashless global economy obviously begs for some sort of digital currency that is accepted by all.
Technocrat Elon Musk is afraid that AI super-intelligence poses an existential threat to humanity and the issue is over control. Technocrats themselves want to socially engineer the planet with science and technology, but autonomous AI would be direct competition. In other words, the very technology they are compelled to create is already backfiring on them.
Somebody should tell the Berkeley City Council that population is already 'stabilized' and headed down on a global basis and that global warming is a hoax. People who are given to receive delusion seem to have plenty to share with everyone else, and Berkeley is no exception.
Huge shoutout to Jennifer Lynch of Electronic Frontier Foundation for investigative journalism to expose the Department of Homeland Security's massive surveillance program. TN has warned for years that Technocrats in U.S. intelligence agencies have gone rogue while ignoring the U.S. Constitution, Federal law and citizen complaints. If surveillance is not stopped, America will quickly surpass China as a police state.
European Bureaucrats and Technocrats have set unachievable goals on renewable energy and laid the failure on taxpayers with suffocating taxes. People are fed up as they realize that the war between fossil fuels and renewables is just another scam.
Technocrats are fascinated with knowing the future. The father of Technocracy and Scientism, Henri De Saint-Simon (1760-1825) wrote “A scientist, my dear friends, is a man who foresees; it is because science provides the means to predict that it is useful, and the scientists are superior to all other men.”