The Prospect of Technocracy

As technology continues to rapidly advance, certain governments are adopting surveillance technologies to track their civilians. Some are calling this idea “technocracy”, a governmental structure where technology holds power to influence people’s everyday lives and eventually create a kind of utopia, aiming to cheat death. What does this mean for us? Paul Kingsnorth, author of The Abbey of Misrule, a collection of essays about the unfurling madness of the times, will be helping us have this conversation.

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