“It is possible that Big Data can even read desires we do not know we harbor… rendering the collective unconscious accessible... in the position to take control of mass behavior on a level that escapes detection” - philosopher Byung-Chul Han
Technocracy actually has its roots in a 1930s movement by the same name. One of the core tenants is the prediction of social life, which it reduces to its quantifiable mechanisms, and in many ways, this is still the end goal ambition.
Howard Scott, the founder of the Technocracy movement, felt that concerns with material relations was a read herring to the control of the technology itself — a class he felt that would become like high priests.
“Google’s co-founder Larry Page has privately said he desired to someday see a “digital God” and considered our preference for humans as outdated.”
“As Peter Thiel wrote in a 2009 op-ed, “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.”
As one of the original Technocratic thinkers pointed out, Society loses all ability to make choices about technology once pandoras box has been opened. Technology is allowed to advance at any cost, and problems will just be solved with more technology.
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