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In what manner does Alphabet Inc. represent technocracy? What do they rule over? Do you mean that they have a great deal of indirect power over the lives of the

• eternalban 5y ago
  "nascent: "(especially of a process or organization) just coming into existence and beginning to display signs of future potential: the nascent space industry." https://www.businessinsider.com/google-mountain-view-new-campus-renderings-middlefield-park-2020-9?op=1 https://www.businessinsider.com/google-mountain-view-new-cam... It's hardly an original thought that we are living through major changes in societal order: a transitional period. Google and its parent company appear to be the avant-garde of an emerging societal type. We may live to see the day that individuals are born to corporate parents, schooled by that corporation, live in that corporation's cities, and end up working for that corporation. But unlike the industrial cities of the eponymous bygone era, these will be cities of technocrats, "mind workers". This will likely occur in conjunction with diminishing role of nation-states, and a more robust, overt, and assertive global governance that will play the (political/"spiritual") role of, say, Catholic Church, in the Middle Ages' Europe.