A digital prison for humanity? This was encoded in the Technocracy Course in 1934, and the technology has caught up to their lofty aspirations. There were only seven requirements for Technocracy. Here are 3,4,5: 3) "Provide a continuous inventory of all production and consumption"; 4) "Provide a specific registration of the type, kind, etc., of all goods and services, where produced and where used"; 5) "Provide specific registration of the consumption of each individual, plus a record and description of the individual."
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