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===Technocracy Movement===

===Technocracy Movement===

A second group of technocrats in the 1930's, led by Howard Scott, built what was at the time known as the Technocracy Movement.<ref name=utopianism />  One of the big topics was the "price system", and replacing it with a unit that was more measurable, such as joules or ergs.<ref name=lifeintechnocracy>[https://books.google.com/books?id=1kvifvNro9MC&pg=PA55 Life in a Technocracy: What it Might be Like]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZdflsAHqnQIC&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3 More: The Politics of Economic Growth in Postwar America]</ref>

A second group of technocrats in the 1930s, led by Howard Scott, built what was at the time known as the Technocracy Movement.<ref name=utopianism />  One of the big topics was the "price system", and replacing it with a unit that was more measurable, such as joules or ergs.<ref name=lifeintechnocracy>[https://books.google.com/books?id=1kvifvNro9MC&pg=PA55 Life in a Technocracy: What it Might be Like]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZdflsAHqnQIC&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3 More: The Politics of Economic Growth in Postwar America]</ref>

==Forerunners==

==Forerunners==

Some advocates of ''technocracy'' uphold the system as a meritocracy.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=I-k0hgtaiCcC&pg=PA3 Technocracy at Work]</ref>  For elected officials, this can hold true as the voting populace would have actively made that choice and presumably a candidate's engineering or other specialization will be discussed in open debate.

Some advocates of ''technocracy'' uphold the system as a meritocracy.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=I-k0hgtaiCcC&pg=PA3 Technocracy at Work]</ref>  For elected officials, this can hold true as the voting populace would have actively made that choice and presumably a candidate's engineering or other specialization will be discussed in open debate.

But for unelected bureaucrats of a technocratic nature, meritocracy itself is undermined, and any technocratic merit will be superceded by the quagmire that the citizens are being arbitrarily dictated to.  This has led critics to point out that technocracy is undemocratic.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=UR6Q6LugtLoC&pg=PA361 User Behavior and Technology Development: Shaping Sustainable Relations Between Consumers and Technologies], The Technocracy versus Democracy issue</ref>

But for unelected bureaucrats of a technocratic nature, meritocracy itself is undermined, and any technocratic merit will be superseded by the quagmire that the citizens are being arbitrarily dictated to.  This has led critics to point out that technocracy is undemocratic.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=UR6Q6LugtLoC&pg=PA361 User Behavior and Technology Development: Shaping Sustainable Relations Between Consumers and Technologies], The Technocracy versus Democracy issue</ref>

==See also==

==See also==