Category: TRENDS IN TECHNOCRACY by Joe Doran

In 2018, the World Economic Forum, in conjunction with groups including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, organized a hypothetical simulation of a worldwide pandemic. The exercise was titled “Event 201.” Today, the synopsis reads like an eerie blueprint for the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020: Event 201...

MYANMAR PROTESTERS FEAR AI FUELED CRACKDOWN. CCTV cameras, facial recognition technology, digital tracking, and arrests of political dissidents. It’s becoming a familiar story, playing out in hotspots around the world, as regimes are getting more and more aggressive in leveraging technology to crush political dissent. This time it’s Myanmar. Long-time activist and incumbent President Aung...

BEYOND BITCOIN: OTHER CRYPTOS MIGHT BE FUN IN ‘21. Bitcoin continues to be a main object and a target for both investor and government scrutiny. In the last few weeks, it has traded wildly up and down. It caved from a high of around $58,000 to territory in the range of $43,000 after negative comments...

Investigative Journalism, the Technocracy, and Cancel Culture are sitting in a bar. “Hey, get a load of that nerdy chick married to her cell phone in the corner,” says IJ. “Who is she?” “Just a second,” says Technocracy. “Blonde, glasses, 20s. Okay, did a Same Energy search, this looks like her. Dark data scan in...

Child porn and exploitation on Twitter, wholesale censorship on YouTube, and Apple doubling down on banning the resurrected Parler media social platform from its app store might all seem like worthy matters for government officials to address. But none of that was a target this past week of Texas Governor Gregg Abbott. At a meeting...

It seems every week some aspect of a classic dystopian novel jumps off the page and into the designs of the Technocracy. This week, two congressmen were shining a spotlight on Amazon’s bolder moves into censoring books. Why does it matter? Because over the last decade, the tech behemoth has gained a de facto monopoly...

HUGE HACK AFFECTS THOUSANDS OF SECURITY CAMERAS. The latest digital hack of a prominent surveillance firm reveals just how extensive online stores of sensitive personal video and audio are becoming. Intruders were able to breach Verkada, a California-based company that provides monitoring equipment and cloud storage services to schools, hospitals, prisons, and thousands of other...

First, they came for Song of The South. Disney is now holding monthly meetings to determine what to censor among its entertainment properties, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The company “convenes an eclectic group of advisers via videoconference to tell the media conglomerate what it and the many entertainment companies it has acquired over its...

PAYPAL EYES “CURV”-Y MOVE INTO CRYPTOS. Leading online payments processor PayPal is negotiating to acquire Curv, a NY-based cryptocurrency company, according to Bloomberg. Dozens of clients reportedly use its products. This past November, PayPal started to let clients buy, sell, and keep some cryptocurrencies in their wallets. The move was seen as a reaction to...

At around the same time FBI Director Christopher Wray was being grilled in the Senate over his agency’s heavy-handed crackdown on 6 January Capitol protesters, new facts were emerging: Not a single firearms violation or confiscation occurred on Capitol grounds during 6 January protests The U.S. Army advised against sending in troops to quell the...