Technocracy
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Technocracy ("techno" from the Greek tekhne for skill, "cracy" from the Greek kratos for "power") can refer to:
- The social and economic system proposed by the Technocratic movement and the organization Technocracy, Inc., which believes that modern technology and a government organized on a scientific basis can lead to a society of abundance.
- A political attitude common to Thorstein Veblen and H. G. Wells, who considered that the economy would be better off run by technical experts instead of private industry. This is somewhat similar to the ideas of the Technocratic movement, mentioned above. See also planned economy and anticipatory democracy.
- A term adopted by Neil Postman to describe a society where tools play a central role in culture and everything must give way to the advancement of the tools, yet there are alternatives still present
- Technocracy (bureaucratic), a government run by the highly educated. See also Auguste Comte's positivism and Saint-Simonists "technocrats" during the French Second Empire
- Groupe X-Crise, a French technocrat movement in the 1930s
- Technocracy (World of Darkness) (or Technocratic Union), a fictional world-wide conspiracy that employs a scientific paradigm to pursue an agenda opposed to superstition and faith-based belief systems and dedicated to the victory of science as the primary world belief system, in the role-playing game Mage: The Ascension.
- Technocracy (EP), a 1987 EP by the band Corrosion of Conformity
- A technocrat can be an individual who makes decisions based solely on technical information and not personal or public opinion. This definition is usually applied to political decision makers who use this method to guide their actions
- Technocrat (derogatory), a derogatory term used to describe a person with technical skills who doesn't always consider all possible consequences of their use
- Technocrat (comics), a DC Comics character and former member of the Outsiders
