Technocracy If Engineers Ruled the World Technocracy 1.History 2.The Ideas 3.What Happened?

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Technocracy If Engineers Ruled the World

Technocracy 1.History 2.The Ideas 3.What Happened?

Forerunners of the Technocrats Francis Bacon, The New Atlantis, UK, 1627

Forerunners of the Technocrats Saint-Simon, Du Systeme Industriel, France, 1802 `Industrial ability must replace feudal and military power; it is more important that administrators be competent than that they belong to a particular political party.’

Saint-Simon’s Three Chambers of Parliament 1.Ìnvention’: engineers and artists 2. Èxamination’: scientists 3. Èxecution’: industrialists

Prosper Enfantin, disciple of Saint-Simon

Technocracy in North America 1899: Bellamy publishes `Looking Backward’, a look ahead to the distant future (2000 AD) 1911: Taylor publishes `Principles of Scientific Management’. 1916: Gantt organises fifty engineers into `The New Machine’.

Technocracy in North America 1917: The US enters World War I 1921: Thorsten Veblen publishes `The Engineers and the Price System’. Hoover publishes the results of the Committee on the Elimination of Waste..

Technocracy in North America: : Howard Scott, a disciple of Veblen, forms the Technical Alliance. The Alliance includes Charles Steinmetz, chief engineer of GE; Richard Tolman, later Dean of Physics at CalTech; and Veblen himself. 1921: The Alliance breaks up among accusations that Scott has mismanaged its funds. 1929: The Great Crash, followed by the Depression. 1931: Scott and Rautenstrauch form the Committee on technocracy.

Official and unofficial Technocratic publications from the 1930’s

Pre-Industrial Economy Most of an item’s value comes from the human energy expended to make it. So, given a society of N citizens, an individual can exchange a year’s labour for 1/N of the goods produced in the society that year. The institution of `money’ provides a way to ration scarce goods among the citizens.

Industrial Economy Most of the energy needed to produce an item is supplied by technology; human energy represents less than 2% of the total energy input. Thus a citizen can only exchange their labour for a tiny fraction of the goods produced by society. Money is no longer an efficient way to distribute abundant goods among the citizens.