Genius or nut? Elon Musk's grandfather was the leader of Canada's Technocracy, Inc. during the 1930s and 1940s and his influence certainly rubbed of on a young Musk. As I have warned for years, the hype of Technocracy's Utopia does not live up to reality.
Singapore is the leading city-state model for Technocracy in the world, priding itself for its masterful control over societal data. In defiance and with impunity, hackers have stolen health records including those of the Prime Minister.
Analytica was actually a minor deal. Facebook prostituted user data - including friends names, genders and birthdates - all over the world, even as far as the Chinese government-connected firm, Huawei. With Technocracy, its 'Follow the data, follow the power.'
In the face of populism and decline of Democracy, Technocrats argue that the population should not have its say because they fear their capacity for action will be frozen.
Discussing political philosophy, values, ethics and morality leave Technocrats out in the cold because all they can talk about is 10-point solutions to definable problems. Even global Technocracy, the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, is a list of 17 goals and 169 targets.
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).
The writer reports in The Kashmir Monitor. By 2020, China's 600 million CCTV cameras with facial recognition and its centralized blockchain management technologies will lead to an unbreakable Technocratic Dictatorship.
Paul Tucker was Deputy Governor at the Bank of England and is a self-described Technocrat. This interview discusses the dynamics between Technocracy, Populism and Democracy, and he concludes that Technocracy would be better off to relax its grip for awhile and avoid stronger backlash.
A little levity can go a long way to stimulate a clearer perspective on things. Dr. Tim Ball has been collecting adages for a long time and here are some of his favorites.
This might be considered a weak link, but Washington Post themselves came up with the idea that Technocrats are infiltrating the Trump Administration. At the least, this lends support to the new political philosophy sweeping Europe, called 'Technopopulism', or a blend of Populism and Technocracy.