Warning about the Technocracy from Orson Welles

[TonyGosling]

This movie came out in 1972 and features Orson Welles as the narrator. I was most amused by the high amount of paranoia in regards to the future... some of the segments (like people choosing their own skin color) are downright hilarious. Worth a look - at the very least for its historical value.

Link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ghzomm15yE

[TonyGosling]

New Eugenics and the Rise of the Global Scientific Dictatorship
The Technological Revolution and the Future of Freedom, Part 3
by Andrew Gavin Marshall - Global Research, July 5, 2010
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20028

This is the third and final part of the series, "The Technological Revolution and the Future of Freedom."

Part 1: The Global Political Awakening and the New World Order
Part 2: Revolution and Repression in America


Introduction

We are in the midst of the most explosive development in all of human history. Humanity is experiencing a simultaneously opposing and conflicting geopolitical transition, the likes of which has never before been anticipated or experienced. Historically, the story of humanity has been the struggle between the free-thinking individual and structures of power controlled by elites that seek to dominate land, resources and people. The greatest threat to elites at any time – historically and presently – is an awakened, critically thinking and politically stimulated populace. This threat has manifested itself throughout history, in different places and at different times. Ideas of freedom, democracy, civil and human rights, liberty and equality have emerged in reaction and opposition to power structures and elite systems of control.

The greatest triumphs of the human mind – whether in art, science or thought – have arisen out of and challenged great systems of power and control. The greatest of human misery and tragedy has arisen out of the power structures and systems that elites always seek to construct and manage. War, genocide, persecution and human degradation are directly the result of decisions made by those who control the apparatus of power, whether the power manifests itself as intellectual, ecclesiastical, spiritual, militaristic, or scientific. The most malevolent and ruthless power is that over the free human mind: if one controls how one thinks, they control the individual itself. The greatest human achievements are where individuals have broken free the shackles that bind the mind and let loose the inherent and undeniable power that lies in each and every individual on this small little planet.

Currently, our world is at the greatest crossroads our species has ever experienced. We are in the midst of the first truly global political awakening, in which for the first time in all of human history, all of mankind is politically awakened and stirring; in which whether inadvertently or intentionally, people are thinking and acting in political terms. This awakening is most evident in the developing world, having been made through personal experience to be acutely aware of the great disparities, disrespect, and domination inherent in global power structures. The awakening is spreading increasingly to the west itself, as the majority of the people living in the western developed nations are thrown into poverty and degradation. The awakening will be forced upon all people all over the world. Nothing, no development, ever in human history, has posed such a monumental threat to elite power structures.

This awakening is largely driven by the Technological Revolution, which through technology and electronics, in particular mass media and the internet, have made it so that people across the world are able to become aware of global issues and gain access to information from around the world. The Technological Revolution, thus, has fostered an Information Revolution which has, in turn, fed the global political awakening.

Simultaneously, the Technological Revolution has led to another unique and unprecedented development in human history, and one that is diametrically opposed, yet directly related to the global political awakening. For the first time in human history, free humanity is faced with the dominating threat of a truly global elite, who have at their hands the technology to impose a truly global system of control: a global scientific dictatorship. The great danger is that through the exponential growth in scientific techniques, elites will use these great new powers to control and dominate all of humanity in such a way that has never before been experienced..........

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20028

[Whitehall_Bin_Men]

Toyota
Great Luddite story - technology gone mad
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2012-10/15/content_15817829.htm

Latest mess follows the incredible reverse action accellerator pedal fiasco

Launching a simultaneous worldwide recall shows that Toyota learned the lesson from its previous slow reaction in China, said some commentators.

Lesson from the past

Toyota made a massive, serial global recall in 2009 over faulty accelerator pedals, but included vehicles in China later than other markets, and then mostly due to pressure from public opinion.

Toyota was widely criticized at the time because consumers suspected the company initially tried to deliberately avoid recalls in China.

In an attempt to clear consumer worries about vehicle quality, the carmaker's CEO Akio Toyoda flew to Beijing to apologize and explain in 2010.

In addition to Toyota, most carmakers in China have long been reluctant to recall faulty vehicles because penalties are negligible and local consumers often misunderstand the concept of a recall, viewing it as a synonym for poor quality.