Employees and labor unions are worried that employers are pressuring them into being microchipped, which could lead to oppressive micro-managment. This is compelling technology to Technocrat managers because it will squeeze even more efficiency from their fleshly robots.
The video news industry is being disrupted with a cheap technology that reads news as well as a human, all made possible by AI and advanced graphics. Of course, it is China's latest invention to displace its massive population.
TN knows that China is exporting its dystopian surveillance technology. This report comes from Freedom House, run by Michael Chertoff who co-authored the Patriot Act in the U.S. Paula Dobriansky, a member of the Trilateral Commission, sits on the board of Freedom House.
DARPA is the black-ops technology inventor for the military. Why does it need drones flying over American citizens? Is this an expanded market opportunity for military contractors or is it an overt move to create a police state like China?
Technocracy evangelist Howard Scott would be happy that Technocracy has spread to the world today, but his prediction of Utopia has turned into Dystopia, as in China and India. Scott's pipe-dream of social engineering and total economic control was as half-baked then as it has proven to be today.
The usefulness of quantum computers is a hotly debated topic, from those who think it is quackery to others who say it's the future of computing. Regardless, scientists are pouring billions of research dollars into proving commercial uses, such as a hack-proof quantum Internet.
The Trump Administration is creating one of the largest Intel budgets ever, and the Director of National Intelligence will not disclose how the money is being spent. Total Surveillance is a hallmark goal of Technocracy
Cashless society is a Technocrat initiative to force people into the digital world. Even if forced cash withdrawal is meeting with resistance, it doesn't mean that people will not be voluntarily abandoning cash over time.
Fintech is the emerging financial system for Sustainable Development, and will permeate every phase and level of the financial world. Further, all nations of the world are embracing Fintech, from China to Europe to the entire Islamic world.
The higher the employee labor cost, the higher the incentive to replace him with a robot. The Technocrat mind describes the challenge: "We have to solve the problem of getting rid of people and replacing them with machines."