Once upon a time, America dreamed of freedom, the frontier, the open road, the right to be left alone. Now, the new frontier is digital, and the open road ends at a biometric checkpoint.
Welcome to the technocratic era, where the invisible elite no longer wear crowns or carry briefcases full of lobbyist cash but hold the keys to the data vaults of the world. They don't conquer nations; they conquer information.
Patrick Wood, a longtime critic of "technocracy," recently warned that America's rising cadre of high-tech power brokers is not merely innovating, they're colonising. Their mission is not Mars, but the human mind, the marketplace, and the machinery of governance itself.
In Wood's analysis, the so-called "technocrats" — figures like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, David Sachs, Larry Ellison, Marc Andreessen, and others orbiting the Trump administration's tech-policy circle — have begun constructing a global digital infrastructure whose true currency is data.
These aren't mere entrepreneurs. They're empire builders, and their empire is built not on land, but on information, yours, mine, and everyone else's.
From Democracy to Dataocracy
In the 20th century, nations fought over oil, territory, and ideology. In the 21st, the prize is total informational dominance. Whoever controls the data, controls the decisions. Whoever writes the algorithm, writes the law.
And so the high priests of Silicon Valley and Washington are merging. The old military-industrial complex is evolving into the data-industrial complex — a seamless mesh of private algorithms and public policy.
Every financial transaction, every health record, every GPS coordinate is a potential data point in a vast lattice of behavioural control. The dream of "efficiency" and "innovation" cloaks a deeper logic: centralisation.
Wood argues that this digital power grab is tied to a shift from debt-based to asset-based finance, a plan to digitise and monetise the U.S. government's enormous physical assets (land, minerals, and more) through blockchain systems.
In the hands of the self-declared efficiency experts, the "Department of Government Efficiency" technocrats, this move is sold as modernisation. But what it really amounts to is a fusion of state power and private capital, lubricated by algorithms and legitimised by convenience.
It's a reboot of empire for the digital age. Instead of armies, there are servers. Instead of borders, there are firewalls. Instead of citizens, there are datasets.
The Technocratic Creed
The old tyrants ruled by decree; the new ones rule by dashboard.
Their creed is not freedom but optimisation. Their morality is measured in metrics. Their faith is that human behaviour, all of it, can be captured, analysed, predicted, and steered. This is not science fiction. It's administration by algorithm, and it's already here.
In this new order, your value is not moral or civic, it's informational. You are a "user," a "data point," a "signal." Privacy, autonomy, even choice itself are quaint 20th-century notions, remnants of a time when people still thought being human meant something distinct from being monitored.
Resistance in the Age of the Machine
The American Revolution was fought with muskets and pamphlets. The next one may be fought with encryption and unplugged routers.
The great irony is that the technocrats claim to free humanity from inefficiency, yet they bind it more tightly to the system than ever before. Every convenience conceals a chain. Every smart device is a listening post.
If data is the new oil, then perhaps the first act of civil resistance is to stop drilling.
The task now is not to reject technology, but to reclaim it. To wrest it from the hands of the few who see in every byte the outline of a cage. Because the future should not belong to those who would quantify the soul. It should belong to those who remember what it means to be free, even when the algorithm says otherwise.
"Top figures in the Trump administration are rolling out policies that promote a technocratic system of global digital control, according to Technocracy News founder Patrick Wood.
"Technocracy has always had the domination of man in mind," Wood said in his presentation this month at the Omniwar Symposium, which aired on CHD.TV.
The technocratic project, developed in the early 1930s and adopted by behind-the-scenes oligarchs, envisions a society controlled by elite technical experts who advocate for social engineering, the abolition of private property and scientific dictatorship, Wood said.
Today, the project is expanding. "For the first time in history, technocracy has been wrapped in a political ideology and a religious system as well. And now it seeks to escape the boundaries of the United States," said Wood, author of "Technocracy Rising."
"In other words, the new and expanded goal of technocracy is to build an empire throughout the world using AI [artificial intelligence] and crypto blockchain technology as weapons of mass subjugation," he added.
Architects of U.S. effort working to take over all data, Wood says
Early promoters of the technocratic project detailed how the elite could completely replace the political system, partly by continuously monitoring and controlling all production and consumption.
That process is ongoing today, Wood said.
Wood said it's important to name the architects of today's technocracy movement. They included Elon Musk, Palantir founder Peter Thiel, President Donald Trump's AI and crypto czar David Sachs, JD Vance's mentor Curtis Yarvin, Marc Andreessen, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Michael Kratsios, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison.
Wood showed a video of Ellison, who explained that countries at the forefront of the "digital revolution" can best leverage the AI models his company and others have built by "unifying all of their data," so that AI can use it. That includes "all of your healthcare data," including electronic health records, diagnostic data and genomic data, Ellison said.
Combining all health data with all financial records and any other available societal information about individuals would revolutionize how government works, Ellison said in the video.
Wood noted that Ellison has also said this includes geospatial data — capturing "where you go, where you move and who you're associated with."
DOGE seized large datasets from every government agency
The administration took a key step toward technocracy when Trump signed the Genius Act and several other executive orders, Wood said. These measures created a privatized financial system based on crypto and tokens, operating outside the Federal Reserve and enabling forms of speculation that Fed oversight would normally prevent.
All of the government data "freed by DOGE" — the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency — was added to the AI cloud, Wood said. In addition, Palantir won a $10 billion government and military contract to combine that data in its AI systems.
Wood said Trump, Musk and Lutnick designed the DOGE project as a "shock and awe" operation, seizing large datasets from every government agency and deploying AI to perform tasks previously handled by humans.
The strategy was to take over all of the data, Wood said. "It was never revealed to the public that way. But now we know exactly what's happened."
Building an empire 'on the backs of digital slaves'
The federal government owns an unknown quantity of gold and 680 million acres of land — with valuable minerals and other productive resources — meant to be kept in trust for the American people, Wood said.
He said the technocrats' goal is to move from a debt-based economic system to an asset-based economic system.
Wood presented several videos in which Lutnick explained his plan to digitize and monetize the U.S. material assets for profit, using the new financial tools provided by the Genius Act.
Kratsios, Sachs and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio authored "America's AI Action Plan," which Wood said is a blueprint for using AI to expand the American empire throughout the world.
"You'll see the idea of exporting all of this stuff to the world is to maintain control over it," Wood said.
The goal is for the U.S. to export "its full AI technology stack — hardware, models, software, applications and standards — to all countries willing to join America's AI alliance."
Wood said that includes the data centers being built across the U.S., all of the AI models, the software that runs them, the applications and the rules for how those things will be run.
Within the U.S., he said, the plan would require all institutions that receive federal funding for scientific research to use biometric ID systems based on DNA. This will be mandated through "enforcement mechanisms," according to the action plan.
Through policies like these, the technocrats in the Trump administration are building a world empire "on the backs of digital slaves," Wood said.
"We're the slaves, by the way, if you haven't already figured that out," he added.
The "arch-technocrats" — Musk, Thiel, Sachs, Ellison, Lutnick, Yarvin, Andreessen and Kratsios — are responsible for enforcing the system in America and expanding it to the rest of the world, Wood said."