When the UN SDGs promise "lifelong learning experiences", it means you will have to reinvent yourself multiple times in your lifetime in order to stay working. Your alternative will be to fall into a new class cynically called the "unemployables".
For years, Riksbank led the charge for cashless society in Europe, which was part of the Utopian dream of total control. Now, it has done a complete u-turn, saying that cash must be re-instituted throughout the nation. This is the first evidence that some sectors in Europe are pushing back against Technocracy.
Computer modeling has become a god unto itself, and Technocrat operators are never concerned that their data and programming is uncertain. So, if rising water doesn't drown you, tornados and hurricanes don't destroy you, then you will likely die of hunger due to food shortages.
Agenda 21, 2030 Agenda, Smart Growth, Sustainable Development, etc., all tell people what to do, what to consume and how to live. Are Technocrats gods that they know better how everyone should behave? Any why is it always our fault when their Utopian dreamscapes don't work out? This is good food for thought.
Technocracy is about using collected data to engineer and control all of society by a select few who believe they have the answers for mankind. This movement got traction in the 1930s but was rejected by American by the 1940s. Now, it's back and little has changed.
In fact, male sperm count has been falling year over year for some time, but this doesn't warrant a prediction of man's extinction; after all, it only takes a single sperm to fertilize an egg. In Huxley's Brave New World, this was solved by growing babies in incubators instead of a mother's womb. Technocrats will probably study that next.
Technocrats at DARPA are creating a new technology that could potentially become the deadliest bioweapon on earth. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is an agency of the Department of Defense and develops technology for the military.
Move over Universal Basic Income (UBI. Universal Basic Mobility (UBM) is coming, and it promises to be the foundation of a healthy economy. Of course, get rid of gas guzzling cars, promote ride sharing, electric scooters and bicycles, and increase busses and light rail.
Lee is one of the fathers of AI and is equally at home in China or the U.S. His perception of the future of AI and AI race between China and the U.S. is essential to understand. You may not like what you hear, but it is the reality living in the Technocrat mind: Listen to his TED Talk.
After one year under the thumb of Amazon, Whole Foods employees cry out that "They want us to be robots." As Amazon's technocrat-driven warehouse warehouse philosophy is being imposed on Whole Foods: micromanagement and intense pressure to perform.