At the present time, some 70 countries expressly ban heritable human genome editing, and no nation on earth explicitly allows it. But that’s unlikely to last. Prominent scientists and medical professionals are advocating for changes in laws, in the name of eradicating serious genetic maladies. It’s hard to argue with the prospect of humans no...
Category: TRENDS IN TECHNOCRACY by Joe Doran
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
COVERING YOUR FACE NOT ENOUGH: GOV’T DEVELOPING WHOLE-BODY BIOMETRICS TO IDENTIFY YOU. Dissidents will have to get more creative, if they want to avoid illegal government crackdowns for exercising their protest rights. Nextgov, the corporate consortium that exists to sell tech to government agencies, is reporting on a new initiative called BRIAR (Biometric Recognition &...
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THE FORGOTTEN STORY OF TECHNOCRACY’S FOUNDING FATHER
His name was Howard Scott. And more than 20 years before C.S. Lewis warned in the 1940’s about a world in which technocrats would wield undue power via technology, Scott was advocating for exactly that, via his organization “Technical Alliance.” Largely forgotten now, Scott was a surprisingly influential figure in the first half of the...
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WAR, PROFIT AND TRANSHUMANISM: THE QUEST FOR THE “SECOND QUANTUM REVOLUTION”
A consistent theme of technocratic pursuit is that while it may crow loudly about widespread benefits to mankind, it is too often tied to more sinister motives. With a new DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Project Agency) call to work with mega tech companies to speed a “digital arms race” to quantum computing, the dynamic appears...
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SYNBIO AND BIO PHARMA: YES, THERE’S HUGE UPSIDE
It’s not exactly a secret at this point that tech billionaires who propelled and profited off computer and internet waves from the 1970’s to the early 2000’s, are laser-focused on Synthetic Biology (SynBio) and Bio Pharma. Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt and Elon Musk, among others, are raking in money and placing even bigger bets on...
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
ISRAELI SPYWARE ON U.S. CONSUMER PHONES DRAWS MORE ATTENTION. Two Republican legislators are pressuring Apple and the FBI to reveal details regarding spyware developed by the Israeli NSO Business Group. Letters were issued last Thursday by House members Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana ), according to CNBC. Jordan serves as Ranking Member of...
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AI MENTAL HEALTH “INTERVENTIONS” ABOUT TO GET REAL
You’re on your favorite news forum, or social media platform. A post or piece of news catches your attention. It gets your juices going. You have something you want to say, share, question or rant about. So you type away. And then a message pops up. You’ve exhibited signs of a mental health issue. You’re...
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ZUCKERBERG: AI WILL PLAY GOD IN YOUR METAWORLD
Under the guise of “human rights,” Artificial Intelligence (AI) will decide what can take place in the metaverse-or at least Meta’s (formerly Facebook) version of it. Zuckerberg gave a new demonstration this past week of metaverse technology his company is building. Together with a tech engineer, he showed how an “empty” virtual space could be...
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MICROSOFT ANNOUNCES GLOBAL AI “SINGULARITY”
Microsoft evidently believes they’ve achieved the “Singularity”—or at least the infrastructure model on which it will operate. The tech corporation announced this past week the realization of a globally distributed deep learning entity that can seamlessly route workloads to account for different hardware, idle states of processors, and across different Deep Neural Network (DNN) architectures....
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
ACOUSTIC WEAPON COMING TO A PROTEST NEAR YOU? “Conspiracy” speculation that Australian police were using a Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) to disrupt protesters turned into a confirmation this past week. The Epoch Times and others have reported that police employed the technology during the Canberra Convoy Freedom rallies outside Parliament House. According to reports,...
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