A political-economic system in which
totalitarian attributes are enabled by pervasive technology, especially when related to big data.
Technology + Totalitarian = Techtarian
Early aspects of techtarianism can be seen in the
United States PRISM project, China's attempts to use technology to monitor and control freedom of expression, State linked shut-downs of
communications in times of crisis, wholesale monitoring of international communication systems, and systematic monitoring of big data to produce probabilities and risk profiles for those monitored, regardless of suspicious activity or nefarious intent by those monitored and/or without knowledge of those monitored.
While the ultimate manifestations of techtarian systems are not yet defined, the use of
technology toward
totalitarian ends is emerging as a result of state based efforts to
manipulate, monitor and control aspects of technology for the purposes of advancing state based objectives.
