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Smart Grid: The Implementation of Technocracy? PDF Print E-mail

Implementing 1930's-style Technocracy requires a method of monitoring, measuring and controlling consumption of energy on a nationwide basis. The federal government is racing to implement Smart Grid that will place a digital, Wi-Fi enabled power meter on every home in the U.S. Appliance makers are gearing up to include Smart Grid Wi-Fi circuitry, allowing two-way communication between your appliances, the power meter, the utility company and the Department of Energy.  

 
Carbon Currency: A New Beginning for Technocracy? PDF Print E-mail

The resurgent philosophy of 1930's-style Technocracy is making a big comeback by seeking to control the world through energy-based accounting and a universal Carbon Currency. In the process, Technocracy would replace elected leaders with engineers, scientists and technicians who could run the world with science-based efficiency. What Technocracy could not achieve during the Great Depression appears to have finally found traction in the Great Recession.

 


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