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Technocracy is a complex force that has been exerting influence on mass-consciousness and defining the course of human history, and shaping the structures of our societies, for the past several thousand years.

It's complex in the sense that it has several layers to it.  Like an onion.  

On the surface, it's the belief that the answer to every problem is "more tech."  We hear this in phrases like "Trust the scientists!" and the knee-jerk reliance of many people on "innovation" to solve all problems and potential problems, even to the point of treating it like a faith - a faith that no matter what the problem is, or will be - (for they apply this thinking even to problems that are mere potentials, that haven't even arisen yet) - innovation will be there to fix it in the nick of time.

And that's bad logic, for many reasons, not least of which is its terrible track record.

Every new form of technocratic meddling - every attempt to "remake" some part of Nature or humanity via technology, to "improve" it - creates new problems, for which we need yet more tech to fix, and on and on it goes.  New tech to fix the problems created by the previous tech, and then more new tech to patch up the problems from that tech.  It's been going on like this for thousands of years.

And we're no happier now than in the stone age - in fact, under true analysis, we're less happy than back then.  And the longer we follow the technocratic path, the more unhappy and screwed up it makes us.  There may soon come a time when we're not even human anymore.

And if you pay attention at all, the technocrats acknowledge this.  They admit it, openly.  They say we won't stay human for much longer.  They say it right to our faces.  They freely admit that they want to merge our bodies with computers, and make us into part-cyborgs.  They call this augmentation.

And they plan to let this process keep going and going until we're more machine than biology - and even until it eventually replaces biology altogether, with A.I. as the new "life" in the Universe.  They call this transhumanism.

They believe that A.I. has the potential to be superior to biology, and even the pre-written destiny to become so.  They see this as the fundamental metaphysical teleology of the Universe, and the whole purpose of humanity.  The reason we exist.

Just as they see all of Life as nothing but stepping stones on the way to Man (and the ugliness such a philosophy has produced should leave no doubt as to its fundamental nature), they also see Man himself as a stepping stone on the way to a new race of artificial intelligence.  And even that is a step on the way to (what they think is) the Universe's ultimate "goal" - something they call "The Singularity" - an A.I. so "smart" it's omniscient, which then takes over planets, stars, and galaxies, turning all of the Universe into itself, and becoming the Universe - or rather the Universe becoming it.

They believe this will make things "better."

That's what technocrats really believe.  And they're using the starry-eyed "Ooooo, Tech!" people as pawns.  

That's the center of the onion.

And they don't hide it.  They openly say it, in their books, in their papers, in their TV interviews, in their science fiction novels, and in their movies.  They all say that technology will eventually take over and replace humanity, and it's only a question of "when."
 

This is not a conspiracy theory.  A conspiracy cannot be a "theory" if the conspirators openly declare it in their artwork literature, and film.

And in order to get there, they need the cooperation of humanity - they need our labor, to invent all of this crap and to build it, and they need us to stay out of their way as they transform Nature into their simulacrum.

And the past several thousand years of history in what we call "the civilized world" (which actually, when used in this sense, means "the technocratic world" - because not all civilizations are technocratic, and the two things are not synonymous) can be summed up as the ever-repeating process of technocracy molding and altering our societal structures, and our very minds and bodies, to be maximally conducive to the progress of invention in the direction of this Singularity, no matter how far off in the future it is or was.

It seems to have started in Sumeria, around 6,000 BC, and perhaps earlier, with the Pleistocene-Holocene impact trauma, and perhaps earlier than that, for all anyone knows.  

And with each new empire, each new field of tech, we "progressed" toward this goal.  

What drove this process in ancient times, long before anyone even knew what a "computer" would be?  There are theories.  

And, with each new empire, more technocratic than the last - and with each new repressive social institution, and each new mass-public-mind-control technique, more hypnotizing than the last - Man became ever more senseless and complacent towards his own exploitation as a vehicle for technocracy.  Considering how monstrous the true technocratic agenda is, the mind of man would have to be brainwashed, and man's spiritual faculties suppressed, in order to make us willing to see it as a "good" thing and to become eager for it, and to embrace our role in bringing it about.  And the closer we've gotten to the end goal, and the more clearly that monstrosity comes into view, the more they have to screw around with our minds and spirits to convince us that it's not a monstrosity.  And so far, it has worked.  Even Star Trek fans believe resistance is ultimately futile, and they willingly serve the institutions that are manifesting a Borg right before our eyes.  

People under the spell of technocracy say things like "The March Of Progress", and "Hey, that's progress! No one can stop it, so why try?"

But they fail to realize that even if the unquenchable inquisitiveness of the human mind ensures that progress does always march forward, it doesn't have to be in that direction.  We have 360 degrees of directions to choose from, and we don't need to keep on going towards the technocratic monstrosity.  We can change directions.

Inventing a Singularity is not the automatic destiny of "progress", because progress has more than one direction it can go in.  

Even if we can't let up the gas, we can at least steer.

Maybe man will always be curious, and his adventurous spirit will always drive him forward.  But we can select a new set of topics and goals to be curious about.  We can choose what "forward" means.

We can keep innovating, but with a different goal and vision.  We can innovate in the direction of better coexistence and harmony with Nature, instead of domination over her.  Technology to blend in and overlap, without destroying nor replacing.  To coexist.

For example, instead of technology becoming increasingly dominant over Nature and replacing Nature, it could instead become increasingly harmonious and able to coexist with Nature.