Is Digital Technology Leading Us Into A New Dark Age?

Without calling it Technocracy, the author correctly sees the future of “a shell democracy run by smart machines, and a new elite of progressive but authoritarian technocrats.” ⁃ TN EditorRecent news exposés about the dark side of high-tech — including online fraud, social media manipulation of elections, and the use of cyber-surveillance tools to target human-rights activists — have shocked many of us out of our sanguine view that technology i