The latest global mantra is that cities will soon replace the nation-state as the principal drivers and planners of society. Thus, you will see more articles of this type encouraging Mayors to usurp national sovereignty status and take control of the climate change mitigation 'problem.'
The smart grid is an absolute requirement for Technocracy to succeed and sensors are the data collection tools. This market is set to explode, and the introduction of Graphene to the sensor market will literally set it on fire.
Mix the World Economic Forum with New Urban Agenda, and you get a massive spawning-ground for public-private partnerships. P3 is a blending of public and private financing, most comparable to fascism.
Christiana Figueres is the eternal optimist and she is minimizing Trump's recent Executive Order to roll back energy regulations. Time will tell.
Transhumans are anticipating great breakthroughs in technology that will change the nature of man, including adding immortality and omniscience. Still, trillions will be spent before they give up.
Technocrats are dysfunctional hoarders of data, which is more precious to them than the technology needed to store it. Now, the world's data will survive the apocalypse, or so they think.
Eventually every company and all of society will be dragged into this surveillance-crazed Internet of Things. Those who refuse to participate will be heavily discriminated against. This is the heartbeat of Technocracy, and it is closing in fast.
Any modern energy initiative is guaranteed to have a Technocrat planner. This story comes directly from an involved participant who is fighting against his local Community Choice Aggregator project. Be assured that this "scheme" will roll out into cities across America, where citizens will be deceived and bewildered, especially when their electricity rates unexpectedly rise.
Other names for the same scheme include: Community Choice Energy (CCE), Municipal Aggregation, Governmental Aggregation, Electricity Aggregation and Community Aggregation. As of 2014, 1,300 municipalities were directly affected.
The combined weight of sales from just ten companies is $358 billion per year in revenue, and the pressure to consolidate further continues. To say this is unhealthy for the world is an understatement.
Technocrats and Transhumans alike see the future of man in the galaxies, rather than on earth. Both Bezos and Elon Musk, among other tech elites, want to colonize the moon as well as Mars.