Where would Grime's get such an idea? From Elon Musk, who is a dyed-in-the-wool Technocrat and whose grandfather that he grew up with, Dr. Joshua Haldeman, was the national leader of Technocracy, Inc. in Canada during the 1930s and 1940s.
Just as 9/11 brought the total surveillance state into existence, the coronavirus will usher in a new economic system. While that is taking place, the total surveillance state will be further reinforced by spending on IoT, social engineering projects, geospatial intelligence, etc.
The entire world - except the United States - is already talking about appointing/electing Technocrats and implementing Technocracy. This is the most dangerous endgame possible and America's head is still buried in the sand
Italy is experiencing a complete, total and chaotic shakeup of their society. As in its economic chaos in 2011, Italy is again ripe for another EU appointed Technocrat Prime Minister to put everything back together again.
Advanced technology is ubiquitous, ever-present and rapidly developing into a panopticon of surveillance where the “system” knows more about you than you know about yourself. Literally.
Parag Khanna's book, Technocracy in America, would turn the nation upside down, but he misrepresents Technocracy as some kind of benevolent partnership between democracy and civil experts.
Stock markets are crumbling. Oil has cratered. Interest rates are decimated. Economic indicators are pointed straight down. These are the very barometers of Capitalism, and they are sounding a "death rattle" harbinger of imminent death.
Hidden in this story is an important truth: Big Tech moguls are not socialists, leftists, capitalists or communists - they are Technocrats! Until this word is inserted into the vernacular, Big Tech will never be adequately described or understood.
High profile economic expert and author Jim Rickards has nailed China for its 1984-like control over society using doublethink, Newspeak, Thought Police, etc., and warns that it is headed toward America. The only dot left to connect is Technocracy
The author is correct to associate "technocratic" with Bloomberg, but for the wrong reasons. Bloomberg is an active member of the Trilateral Commission which elevated Technocracy to global prominence beginning in 1973.