Flashback 2012: ‘Facebook Is The Perfect Technocracy’

This 2002 article that appeared in The Atlantic describes Facebook as a Technocracy in proper context with the original 1930s Technocracy movement: people-centered government is out and “developer-king” rule is in. This ideology is spreading like wildfire throughout the world. ⁃ TN EditorLet’s stipulate that Facebook is not a country, that real governments fulfill many more functions, and that people are not citizens of their social networks.
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