Smart City doctrine is steeped in the UN's Sustainable Development, and yet our government agencies seem oblivious to the actual plans of implementation. Smart Cities depend on censors, data and geo-spatial intelligence algorithms to track all activity on city dwellers, and it is a precursor to scientific dictatorship.
Technocrat Jack Ma's Alibaba is the Amazon of China, and he is closely aligned with the Chinese government. He readily admits that "The AI and robots are going to kill a lot of jobs as machines will replace humans in future" and that Big Data and AI are a threat to humanity. Nevertheless, Technocracy races forward in China and around the world.
On several fronts, Big Tech and particularly social networks are under attack, with many saying that regulation is inevitable. Public sentiment is obviously turning and leaders are looking very intently at the practices and biases of these tech giants.
John Whitehead absolutely gets the rising authoritarian police state in America, but not the larger picture of Technocracy that is driving it. The national identification system, for instance, is a Technocrat initiative to track everyone, everywhere, at all time.
Robots with AI are turning up everywhere you look; women are idolizing them and men are falling in love. Will this disrupt humanity altogether? Technocrats don't seem to care if it does or not, because they have the limelight and resources to invent whatever they want!
Why would Technocrats want to rip holes in outer space? Because they can. China is a Technocracy that believes the answer to everything is found in science and only science. Super-lasers have application in weather modification, terrestrial warfare and space warfare, and China can be expected to dominate all three.
Geo-engineering has been happening for several years now, but USA Today is just now admitting that possibility by stating it would be more devastating to stop geo-engineering than it might be to start it in first place. What? They haven't started it yet but they are more worried about stopping? Well, of course they have already started massive geo-engineering in the West, so their timeline is just a few years off
Technocracy demands universal identification in order to have universal tracking in order to achieve universal control. This is nothing less than a Scientific Dictatorship where individuality will become a distant memory.
Few veteran journalists grasp Technocracy better than Jon Rappoport, who is also able to paint a poignant picture in so few words. It is worth reading this entire article to get another person's view of the dangers of Technocracy.