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==History==

==History==

William Henry Smyth has been recognized as inventing the word "technocracy" in 1919 to describe as he put it: "''the rule of the people made effective through the agency of their servants, the scientists and engineers''"<ref>{{cite book|last=Jones|first=Barry|title=Sleepers, Wake! Technology and the Future of Work|publisher=Oxford University Press|pages=214}}</ref>.  Smyth had [[Industrial Democracy]] in mind when he coined the term<ref>{{cite book|last=Smyth|first=William H.|title=Technocracy Parts I-IV., Working Explosively, A Protest Against Mechanistic Efficiency.  Working Explosively Versus Working Efficiently|publisher=Berkeley Gazette|quote=Technocracy Part III., "Technocracy" - Ways and Means To Gain Industrial Democracy}}</ref>.

The origins of ''Technocracy'' have been the subject of some debate, but William Henry Smyth has been generally recognized as having invented the word "technocracy" in 1919 to describe as he put it: "''the rule of the people made effective through the agency of their servants, the scientists and engineers''"<ref>{{cite book|last=Jones|first=Barry|title=Sleepers, Wake! Technology and the Future of Work|publisher=Oxford University Press|pages=214}}</ref>.  Smyth had [[Industrial Democracy]] in mind when he coined the term<ref>{{cite book|last=Smyth|first=William H.|title=Technocracy Parts I-IV., Working Explosively, A Protest Against Mechanistic Efficiency.  Working Explosively Versus Working Efficiently|publisher=Berkeley Gazette|quote=Technocracy Part III., "Technocracy" - Ways and Means To Gain Industrial Democracy}}</ref>.

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>[https://books.google.com/books?id=n6RabZ8t48gC&pg=PA259 Technological Utopianism in American Culture]</ref>

[[Thorstein Veblen]] is also regarded to be an early father of technocracy<ref name=utopianism>[https://books.google.com/books?id=n6RabZ8t48gC&pg=PA259 Technological Utopianism in American Culture]</ref>, when he called for a ''Soviet of Technicians'' in 1921.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/engineersandpri01veblgoog ''The engineers and the price system ''], by [[Thorstein Veblen]]], p. 138</ref>

 

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 />

==Critiques==

==Critiques==

==External Links==

==External Links==

* [https://archive.org/details/technocracyworki00smytrich William Henry Smyth, Technocracy Parts I-IV., Working Explosively, A Protest Against Mechanistic Efficiency.  Working Explosively Versus Working Efficiently.] at [[archive.org]]

* [https://archive.org/details/technocracyworki00smytrich William Henry Smyth, Technocracy Parts I-IV., Working Explosively, A Protest Against Mechanistic Efficiency.  Working Explosively Versus Working Efficiently.] at [[archive.org]]

* [https://archive.org/details/TechnocracyStuartChase "Technocracy: An Interpretation"], by [[Stuart Chase]]

* [https://archive.org/details/TechnocracyStuartChase ''Technocracy: An Interpretation''], by [[Stuart Chase]]

* [https://archive.org/details/TechnocracyAndSocialism ''Technocracy and Socialism''], by [[Paul Blanshard]].

* [https://archive.org/details/TechnocracyAndSocialism ''Technocracy and Socialism''], by [[Paul Blanshard]]

[[Category:Political Terms]]

[[Category:Political Terms]]