Problem

Social control by technocracy

Other Names:
Surveillance by electronic technology
Technetronic society
Nature:

“The "technetronic" society - a society that is shaped culturally, psychologically, socially, and economically by the impact of technology and electronics—particularly in the area of computers and communications. . .The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities. . . In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason. ”Zbigniew Brzezinski, Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era

Broader Problems:
Technocracy
Totalitarian democracy
Narrower Problems:
Misuse of electronic surveillance by governments
Abusive social credit system
Psychotronic warfare
Biomedical security state
Group mind
Problem Type:
F: Fuzzy exceptional problems
Date of last update
26.04.2022 – 05:10 CEST