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[[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> Other influence upon the formation of ''technocracy'' include [[Edward Bellamy]] and his book [[Looking Backward]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=1kvifvNro9MC&pg=PR13 Life in a Technocracy: What it Might be Like], p. 12-13</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> Other influence upon the formation of ''technocracy'' include [[Edward Bellamy]] and his book [[Looking Backward]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=1kvifvNro9MC&pg=PR13 Life in a Technocracy: What it Might be Like], p. 12-13</ref>
====Autocrat of the New Age====
Like the Technocracy movement that followed it, Smyth's ideals were inherently anti-capitalist, and he envisioned technocracy as a new kind of autocracy that would control society. Because of their skills and training, they would make the best decisions on behalf of society.<ref>[Smyth, Technocracy, Human Instincts in Reconstruction], "The signs of the times portend the dethroning of decadent acquisitive capitalism and the crowning of productive skill - Autocrat of the new Age - Artizanism."</ref>
[[Image:Silver red monad.png|thumb|80px|right|The monad of Technocracy Inc.]]
[[Image:Silver red monad.png|thumb|80px|right|The monad of Technocracy Inc.]]
===Technocracy Movement===
===Technocracy Movement===