For more on this technocracy driven thinking see:
http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/index.html?ca=v_smarterplanet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smarter_Planet
Examples provided of our this has been used to change individual behavior in European countries include a 20% increase in use of public transport in one city and 12% decrease in private car transport in another city. It’s massive behavioral engineering by bureaucrats and technicians who just ‘know what’s good for you’. Anyone else see this as precursor to a very Pavlovian future?
The Tavistock Institute and the Rand corporation provide much of the intellectual material for social engineering. They’re centers or think tanks for international socialism, population control and totalitarian ‘Utopianism’.