by Patrick Wood, Editor, Technocracy News & Trends, www.Technocracy.News
Back in the 1930s in America, there was an organization actually called Technocracy Incorporated. It was preceded by a movement, still called Technocracy, but a movement that was for a short period of time embedded at Columbia University. The two founders of the movement at that time were Howard Scott and M. King Hubbert. They were both the co-founders, as well, of Technocracy Incorporated in 1934.
At that time, the world was in deep depression, especially in America. There were soup lines and food lines, unemployment was very high, there was very little hope. People thought that capitalism had died and wondered what was going to become of the world. Was it just going to fall apart?
Some scientists and engineers, especially the ones at Columbia University, decided that the only way to save society was to create a new economic model that would replace capitalism. That’s what Technocracy is all about; it’s an economic system. It defines a completely new paradigm for the control of economic affairs in society.
They proposed that it would be based on energy rather than on money, supply and demand, capitalism and free enterprise — things we know and understand today. The idea would be that everybody in society would be issued a certain amount of energy credits or energy currency for a period of time, and that they would buy goods and services at prices that were set according to the energy that it took to make those goods and services. There was no provision for property rights, because why would you need to own anything if everything was basically provided for you? It would end up being a completely managed and controlled society by the scientists and engineers that hated politicians. They saw no need for politicians whatsoever.
Ever since Technocracy was first dreamed up in 1932, personal privacy has been under attack.
Why? Because original Technocrats saw Technocracy as a system of “Social Engineering” and that meant knowing everything knowable about all citizens across society. They wanted to know everything about your energy consumption, all of your purchases, all of your health details and all of travels. It was lucky for us that they only had pencils and paper to create their self-styled utopia.
Not today, though. Advanced technology is ubiquitous, ever-present and rapidly developing into a panopticon of surveillance where the “system” knows much more about you than you know about yourself. Literally.
The U.S. Constitution is supposed to protect us from these Technocrat pariahs. In particular, the Fourth Amendment states:
Technocrats hated the Constitution in 1932 and nothing has changed.
WiFi-enabled smart meters now collect and transmit your energy usage to the energy-masters on a minute-by-minute basis, and they can calculate exactly where and how you are consuming all of your energy. All of your social media data is routinely hoovered up by a long line of corporate marketers and various government agencies, including the National Security Agency, Central Intelligence Agency, and Department of Human Services. Your cellphone tracks 100 percent of your meanderings around town.
Then, there is the new field of “predictive policing” that is reminiscent of the 2002 Tom Cruise movie, Minority Report.
Zachary McCoy went out on a bike ride and happened to inadvertently pass by a house that had been burglarized. Then he got a letter from Google that his local police department had served a “geofence warrant” that demanded Google release the private data on anyone who happened to be near the crime scene at the time of the crime, and McCoy’s name was on the list.
Google knows and collects such things, you must realize, because of its users’ GPS, Bluetooth, WiFi, phone apps, and cellular connections. Now McCoy is considered a prime suspect in a crime that he had no idea was ever committed in the first place. Who on earth ever allowed any court to issue a “geofence warrant” in the first place?
In Utah, state leaders recently had a lapse of sanity when they granted full access to a myriad of state data to a private company:
Banjo calls this “Live Time Intelligence” and in the lofty and noble name of solving crimes as they happen, they will suck up every piece of data on everyone in the entire state! No problem though, because “It claims it does this while somehow stripping all personal data from the system, allowing it to help cops without putting anyone’s privacy at risk.”
“Somehow”? Since when is state data not completely tied to individual citizens? Well, ‘Duh!”
To this writer’s humble logic, citizens in every community in America should storm their city halls to put an end to this nonsense, while there is any time left to do so.
Our author, Patrick Wood, has a new website to help you fight back: CitizensForFreeSpeech.org.