The 'Event"? This is a penetrating article that concludes that the real future of technology is about just one thing: escape. This includes colonizing Mars (Musk), reversing the aging process (Thiel) and uploading minds into supercomputers (Kurzweil, Altman).
As the world's first superpower Technocracy, China is also the testbed for technology used to spread it to the rest of the world. As stated in the second paragraph of this article, Marriott has "ambitions for a global rollout" as soon as testing is completed.
Activist scientists who make sweeping accusations against humans for being the cause of mass extinctions have no proof to back up their assertions, but rather speculate behind their PhD degrees and call it 'science'. Real science is observable and repeatable, speculation is not.
The glaring fallacy in Technocracy is that the data are bent to justify their theories. This crept in when early Technocrats realized that their 'Science of Social Engineering' could not be supported with legitimate data. Today's news plays out like the childhood game 'Simon Says" but substituted with 'Science Says'.
Is a robot worth more than a human? Apparently. The banking industry will soon be inundated with robots, displacing hundreds of thousands of human employees around the world, redefining the term "personal banking' as an oxymoron.
Millions of Catholics are perplexed and disillusioned by Pope Francis' rejection of traditional church theology in favor of the radical environmentalism of global warming and the U.N.'s Sustainable Development. Also, his dedication to Communist theology is clearly seen by the symbol worn around his neck: Jesus crucified upon the hammer and sickle of the former USSR.
Technocracy's 1930s claim of being the "science of social engineering" is clearly seen in every aspect of today's smart buildings and smart cities. Advanced technology is used to monitor, manage, control and predict every conceivable aspect of urban existence.
Ancestry.com has collected over 5 million samples of DNA and is growing exponentially. The resulting data trove is the holy grail to data-hungry Technocrats. Police, insurance companies, intelligence operations, etc., all want to get their hands on this data. All it takes is one creative hacker to crack their system.
Stockton, California has been in and out of bankruptcy but now sees the light on solving its large homeless problem: simply give taxpayer money away to all of them ala Technocracy's "Universal Basic Income". This is a localized version of wealth re-distribution and is all but guaranteed to throw the city back into bankruptcy.
Cattle have been demonized by environmental radicals as 'unsustainable', carbon belchers and wrecking the environment. To their chagrin, the exact opposite has been demonstrated in practice. Cattle are highly beneficial to the ecosystem while proving an excellent source of protein.