The global elite are counting on global cities replacing the nation state, and becoming the principal building blocks of global society. It was the UN's New Urban Agenda that enshrined the concept of "Right to the City."
Instead of Technocrats running society, how about robots build by Technocrats instead? There is a major societal shift taking place even as this article is posted.
A penetrating philosophical look at the dangers of Technocracy in its final expression on planet earth. It's coming, it may be unstoppable, and its logical end is, as C.S. Lewis wrote, the 'Abolition of Man".
The future of warfare will be decided by technology-crazed Technocrats who invent because they can, not because they need to. Now that an global arms-race has broken out, there is no way to stop the oneupmanship competition to get smaller, more clever and more deadly: Weaponized technology designed to kill humans.
Excellent article from CFACT that ridicules Sustainable Development, which is Technocracy. The best way to return to business growth is to shut down the appeasement of the sustainability crowd.
This writer has reiterated many times that China is a Technocracy. This story gives you the future of Scientific Dictatorship in clear terms. Folks, this is where Technocracy is headed unless is it stopped cold in its tracks very soon. If not, we will be living under the continuous microscope of Big Brother, being herded like so many head of cattle in a feed lot
At age 101, the kingpin of modern globalization could not hold out for the Transhuman dream of immortality. However, he shaped the world like few men in history, including imposing Technocracy on the entire planet. The United Nations was beholden to him, as was China and the European Union. Actually, there was little in the world that he did not influence.
CityLab is at the heart of Technocracy and Smart Cities, but even they seemingly realize that many cities are being thrown under the bus by their data-crazed leadership.
Former Secretary of Defense, Ashton Carter, was a seasoned Technocrat. Now Trump is again flooding the Pentagon with other seasoned Technocrats with apparently (said advisedly) little understanding of what is really happening.
The Technocrat world and especially Smart Cities is built upon data, mountains and mountains of data; this is nowhere more evident than Seattle, the nation's most 'sustainable' city.