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The technocratic movement is a social movement that started in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s and advocates a form of society where the welfare of human beings is optimized by means of scientific analysis and widespread use of technology. Today the movement exists as Technocracy Incorporated, whose members partake in discussion groups and publish quarterly magazines. Image File history File links Silver_red_monad. ... Image File history File links Silver_red_monad. ... Technocracys Monad The monad is Technocracy Incorporateds official symbol. ... American Civil Rights Movement is one of the most famous social movements of the 20th century. ... The 1920s is a decade that is sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ... Face The 1930s (years from 1930–1939) were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression, also known in Europe as the World Depression. ... The well-being or quality of life of a population is an important concern in economics and political science. ... The characterization element can require extended and extensive study, even centuries. ... By the mid 20th century humans had achieved a mastery of technology sufficient to leave the surface of the Earth for the first time and explore space. ...

History

A sign on the outskirts of a Depression-era town proclaims regular Monday meetings of the local branch of Technocracy. Library of Congress photo.

A large Technocracy Public event at an outdoor Auditorium

Howard Scott started the Technocratic movement as the Technical Alliance in the winter of 1918-1919. The Technical Alliance, composed of mostly scientists and engineers, started an energy survey of the North American continent near the beginning of the 20th century. Many of their conclusions gave a scientific background upon which they based their ideas for a new social structure. Thorstein Veblen, who wrote Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), was a member of the Technical Alliance. Image File history File links TechnocracySign. ... Image File history File links TechnocracySign. ... The Great Depression was a time of economic down turn, which started after the stock market crash on October 29, 1929, known as Black Tuesday. ... The Library of Congress is the de facto national library of the United States and the research arm of the United States Congress. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 768 pixel, file size: 155 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) A large Technocracy public event. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 768 pixel, file size: 155 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) A large Technocracy public event. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... The Technical Alliance formed at the end of World War I was one of Americas first think tanks. ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... Year 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Look up engineer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Energy Survey of North America was done by the Technical Alliance of North America. ... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... See Social structure of the United States for an explanation of concepts exsistance within US society. ... Thorstein Bunde Veblen (born Tosten Bunde Veblen July 30, 1857 – August 3, 1929) was a Norwegian-American sociologist and economist and a founder, along with John R. Commons, of the Institutional economics movement. ... The Theory of the Leisure Class is a book, first published in 1899, by the American economist Thorstein Veblen while he was a professor at the University of Chicago. ...

In 1933 , the group became incorporated in the state of New York as a non-profit, non-political, non-sectarian organization known as Technocracy Incorporated. Led by Scott, then director-in-chief (his organizational title was "Chief Engineer"), the organization promoted its goals with a North American lecture tour in 1934 , gaining support throughout the depression years. The precedent document of the Technocracy movement is the Technocracy Study Course. NY redirects here. ... A non-profit organization (abbreviated NPO, or non-profit or not-for-profit) is an organization whose primary objective is to support an issue or matter of private interest or public concern for non-commercial purposes, without concern for monetary profit. ... Sectarianism is an adherence to a particular sect or party or denomination, it also usually involves a rejection of those not a member of ones sect. ... A lecture on linear algebra at the Helsinki University of Technology A lecture is an oral presentation intended to teach people about a particular subject, for example by a university or college teacher. ... The Great Depression was a global economic slump that began in 1929 and bottomed in 1933. ... The Technocracy Study Course is the precedent document of the Technocratic movement. ...

The organization's magazines, The Northwest Technocrat and Technocracy Digest, are still published today and the movement still continues after more than 70 years of history. One of the most notable members of the movement was M. King Hubbert, a geophysicist who proposed the theory which has become known as the Hubbert Peak or Peak oil. Marion King Hubbert (October 5, 1903 – October 11, 1989) was a geophysicist who worked at the Shell research lab in Houston, Texas. ... Geophysics, the study of the earth by quantitative physical methods, especially by seismic reflection and refraction, gravity, magnetic, electrical, electromagnetic, and radioactivity methods. ... The Hubbert peak theory, also known as peak oil, is an influential theory concerning the long-term rate of conventional oil (and other fossil fuel) extraction and depletion. ... For other uses, see Peak oil (disambiguation). ...

The standard unit for the organization is the chartered Section, consisting of at least fifty members. At Technocracy's height in popularity, many cities contained more than one Section, sometimes as many as a dozen or more. These sections would be the organs that undertook the majority of Technocracy's work, including the research that continued after the Technical Alliance.

The organization receives its funds entirely from dues and donations from its members. Membership is open to any citizen of North America, save politicians, as Technocracy is not a political party, but moreover seeks the abolition of political controls. The Politics series Politics Portal This box:      A politician is an individual who is a formally recognized and active member of a government, or a person who influences the way a society is governed through an understanding of political power and group dynamics. ... Political parties Part of the Politics series Politics Portal This box:      A political party is a political organization that seeks to attain political power within a government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns. ...

Technocracy's Continental Headquarters (CHQ) was originally situated in New York. It has moved several times through its history, and is currently located in Ferndale, Washington. NY redirects here. ... Ferndale is a city located in Whatcom County, Washington. ...

European movement

See main article: Network of European Technocrats

In 2005, a group of Europeans, inspired by Technocracy, decided to use some of the ideas of North American Technocracy in Europe and created the Network of European Technocrats, or NET, an autonomous research and education organisation with the primary goal of undertaking an Energy Survey (similar to the Energy Survey of North America) in order to determine the possibility of establishing a Technate upon the European continent. The organisation's goals are aimed at testing the concepts of the technocratic movement through experimentation and networking. Although the NET was inspired by Technocracy Incorporated, the two are not affiliated, and there are differences between the groups, such as the NET's avocation of Holons. The NET group gives special focus and investigation to decentralised and ecological methods of resource and information distribution. Current symbol used by NET The Network of European Technocrats (or NET) is an organisation that promotes Technocracy in a European context, as an alternative socioeconomic system for a sustainable future. ... World map showing the location of Europe. ... The Energy Survey of North America was done by the Technical Alliance of North America. ... The word technate was originated by Technocracy, Inc. ... A holon (from the Greek holos = whole and on = entity) is something that is simultaneously a whole and a part. ... // Le de décentralisation de de est le processus de la dispersion prise de décision plus près du point de service ou action. ... The global ecology movement is one of several new social movements that emerged at the end of the sixties; as a values-driven social movement, it should be distinguished from the pre-existing science of ecology. ...

Ideas and goals

Trends of the price system with technologic escalation.

A diagram of the Technical Administration of the North American Technate

A Technocrat giving a speech, with Monad flag in background

The Technocratic movement aims to establish a zero growth socio-economic system based upon conservation and abundance as opposed to scarcity-based economic systems like capitalism and the system used by Communist states. A core conclusion reached by the Technocratic movement is that a price system, or any system based on scarcity, is an illogical means of distribution in our technologically advanced world. Technocracy sees established economic, political, and administrative forms as relics of a traditional past. Download high resolution version (881x462, 135 KB)The following graph shows trends in man-power and production. ... Download high resolution version (881x462, 135 KB)The following graph shows trends in man-power and production. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 776 × 600 pixels Full resolution (792 × 612 pixel, file size: 88 KB, MIME type: image/gif) A diagram of the Technical Administration of a Technate, as proposed by Technocracy Incorporated. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 776 × 600 pixels Full resolution (792 × 612 pixel, file size: 88 KB, MIME type: image/gif) A diagram of the Technical Administration of a Technate, as proposed by Technocracy Incorporated. ... The word technate was originated by Technocracy, Inc. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Zero growth is a concept that all economic activities should aim at the equilibrium state rather than continuing growth which ultimately leads to overshoot and the following collapse of the system. ... Socioeconomics is the study of the social and economic impacts of any product or service offering, market intervention or other activity on an economy as a whole and on the companies, organization and individuals who are its main economic actors. ... The conservation ethic is an ethic of resource use, allocation, exploitation, and protection. ... Abundance economics deals with situations where there are more than enough resources for everyone (ie: an abundance). ... In economics, scarcity is defined as a condition of limited resources, where society does not have sufficient resources to produce enough to fulfill subjective wants. ... It has been suggested that Definitions of capitalism be merged into this article or section. ... This article is about a form of government in which the state operates under the control of a Communist Party. ... The term Price system is used by the Technocracy movement to describe any Economic system whatsoever that effects its distribution of goods and services by means of a system of trade or commerce based on commodity valuation and employing any form of debt tokens, or money and which attempts to...

Technocrats argue that developments in mechanization have caused a massive shift of employment towards the service sector.^[1] Further increases in efficiency and productivity mean that most of the tasks performed by human employees could be reduced or eliminated through better management, automation, and centralization. These trends should signal an increase in both production possibilities and leisure time since more can be produced with less human labor. Within a market system, however, increased productivity often leads to downsizing because companies need fewer workers and lower wages because of competition. Consequently, the standard of living falls for many. Thus, Technocrats argue that we are faced with a fundamental paradox: As inexpensive machines become available to replace human labor, they do not make our lives easier; on the contrary, they make them harder. The more people are capable of producing due to technology, the greater the disparities in wealth will become and the potential benefit of technology will be shared less. The basic cause of this problem, in the view of the Technocratic movement, is the fact that we rely on a money-based system to make economic decisions. Mechanization is the use of machines to replace manual labour or animals and can also refer to the use of powered machinery to help a human operator in some task. ... The tertiary sector of industry, also called the service sector or the service industry, is one of the three main industrial categories of a developed economy, the others being the secondary industry (manufacturing and primary goods production such as agriculture), and primary industry (extraction such as mining and fishing). ... Look up Management in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... The Politics series Politics Portal This box:      Centralization (or centralisation) is the process by which the activities of an organization, particularly those regarding decision-making, become concentrated within a particular location and/or group. ... A relaxing afternoon of leisure: a young girl resting in a pool. ... Downsizing is a euphemism referring to layoffs initiated by a company in order to cut labor costs by reducing the size of the company. ... The Standard of living refers to the quality and quantity of goods and services available to people and the way these services and goods are distributed within a population. ... This article needs additional references or sources to facilitate its verification. ...

As opposed to economists, who define efficiency in terms of maximal allocation of limited resources, in order to provide the most utility to their owners, Technocrats define efficiency in terms of empirical evidence. Efficiency, for a Technocrat, is measured scientifically: a ratio of energy applied for useful work to energy applied in the complete system. Technocrats argue there exists a massive rift between the real world of science and the world of economics. They claim the inputs needed to make most products are in abundance, especially those critical to society's needs like food, shelter, transportation, information, etc. Technocrats argue that most social ills, such as poverty and hunger are due to faulty economics and improper use of technology. They frequently point out that the current price system is wasteful as it utilizes as many resources as possible but can only create scarce products (excludable and rival private goods). Technocrats argue that full use of our technology and resources should be able to produce an abundance. There are several measures of economic efficiency: Pareto efficiency Kaldor-Hicks efficiency X-efficiency Allocative efficiency For applications of these principles see: Efficient market hypothesis Welfare economics Production theory basics See also Business efficiency Inefficiency ... The allocation of production and consumption is a key element of any model of economics. ... Rainforest on Fatu-Hiva, Marquesas Islands Natural resources are naturally occurring substances that are considered valuable in their relatively unmodified (natural) form. ... Empirical research is any activity that uses direct or indirect observation as its test of reality. ... A boy from an East Cipinang trash dump slum in Jakarta, Indonesia shows what he found. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... A private good is defined in economics as a good that exhibits these properties: Excludable (also referred in this context as rivalry) - cannot be consumed by everybody since consumption by one person reduces or excludes consumption by another. ...

Technocrats claim that the price system entails a severe lack of purchasing power, and has been propped up by wasteful tactics, major patches to the economic system, and increasingly huge amounts of debt, which began to increase exponentially after 1930.^{[citation needed]} This debt includes the U.S. national debt, mortgages (see global debt), long term debt, credit debt, and the growing stock market. Technocrats see growing debt as a threat to the stability of capitalism. Technocrats claim that the price system will eventually fail, in which case the movement hopes to have educated enough of the populace in order to peaceably make changes to the economic structure and create a Technate. In economics, purchasing power refers to the amount of goods and services a given amount of money -- or, more generally, liquid assets -- can buy. ... Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The U.S. public debt, commonly called the national debt or the gross federal debt, is the amount of money owed by the United States federal government. ... This article is about the legal mechanism used to secure property in favor of a creditor. ... Flows 2004 Global debt and equity underwriting reached a record $5. ... Consumer debt is consumer credit which is outstanding. ... A stock market is a market for the trading of company stock, and derivatives of same; both of these are securities listed on a stock exchange as well as those only traded privately. ... The word technate was originated by Technocracy, Inc. ...

An alternative to money: Energy accounting

An elderly Howard Scott with John Gregory at Technocracy Inc. Continental Headquarters (CHQ), then in Rushland, PA. Background maps show the proposed area of the Technate overlaid with the Continental Hydrology.

A Technocracy Inc. event, the map in the background is of the proposed North American Technate

An energy credit is a hypothetical unit of currency used in a technate. Unlike traditional money, energy credits cannot be saved or earned, only distributed evenly among a populace. The amount of credit given to each citizen would be calculated by determining the total productive capacity of the technate and dividing it equally. The reason for the use of energy credits is to ensure equality among the Technate’s citizenry as well as prohibit spending that is beyond the productive capacity of the technocracy. This system is usually referred to as energy accounting. Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Capital Harrisburg Largest city Philadelphia Area  Ranked 33rd  - Total 46,055 sq mi (119,283 km²)  - Width 280 miles (455 km)  - Length 160 miles (255 km)  - % water 2. ... The word technate was originated by Technocracy, Inc. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 768 pixel, file size: 160 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Photo of a Technocracy Inc. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 768 pixel, file size: 160 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Photo of a Technocracy Inc. ... An energy-credit, sometimes called an energy certificate, is a hypothetical unit of currency used in a technocracy, or technate as the movement likes to call it. ... Social equality is a social state of affairs in which certain different people have the same status in a certain respect, minimally at least in voting rights, freedom of speech and assembly, and property rights. ... An energy-credit, sometimes called an energy certificate, is a hypothetical unit of currency used in a technocracy, or technate as the movement likes to call it. ...

Technocrats point out that energy accounting is not rationing; it is a way to distribute an abundance and track demand. Everyone would receive an equal, abundant (i.e. far more than they need), amount of energy credits. Technocrats predict that at today's rates of energy conversion, no person will rationally be able to spend all their energy credits.^{[citation needed]} Rationing is the controlled distribution of resources and scarce goods or services: it restricts how much people are allowed to buy or consume. ... The supply and demand model describes how prices vary as a result of a balance between product availability at each price (supply) and the desires of those with purchasing power at each price (demand). ... In physics and engineering, energy conversion is any process of converting energy from one form to another. ...

The North American Technate

The North American Technate is the design located in the Technocracy Study Course. This plan would transform North America into a Technocratic society, not using a price system Price system. The plan includes using Canada's rich deposits of minerals and hydro-electric power as a complement to the United States's industrial and agricultural capacity. The word technate was originated by Technocracy, Inc. ... The Technocracy Study Course is the precedent document of the Technocratic movement. ... The term Price system is used by the Technocracy movement to describe any Economic system whatsoever that effects its distribution of goods and services by means of a system of trade or commerce based on commodity valuation and employing any form of debt tokens, or money and which attempts to... Minerals are natural compounds formed through geological processes. ... Hydroelectricity is the worlds most important renewable energy source The Nagarjuna dam & hydro-electric plant, India Hydroelectricity is electricity produced by hydropower. ...

The North America Technate would be composed of all of North America, Central America, the Caribbean, parts of South America and Greenland, encompassing some 25 modern nations (as well as numerous Non-Self-Governing Territories). If the Technate were setup today, it would contain nearly 600 million citizens and its total land area would be over 26 million square km (making it the largest nation on Earth). Its territorial claims would stretch from the North Pole in the north, to the Equator in the south and from the Caribbean in the west, to the International Date Line in the Pacific Ocean, to the east. World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ... For other uses, see Central America (disambiguation). ... West Indian redirects here. ... South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ... Map of the countries in the UN list:  current  former The United Nations maintains a list of territories that do not govern themselves. ... Countries by area This is a list of the countries of the world sorted by total area. ... For other uses, see North Pole (disambiguation). ... World map showing the equator in red In tourist areas, the equator is often marked on the sides of roads The equator marked as it crosses Ilhéu das Rolas, in São Tomé and Príncipe. ... The International Date Line around 180° This article is about the line dividing time zones; see Dateline (disambiguation) for other meanings, including the television program. ...

Urban Planning

Transportation, and living environs are connected via a continent-wide transportation network envisioned by Technocracy. This would involve a high speed rail network, and the Continental Hydrology, and air transport would transform society. These systems would also be connected to the industrial sites for easy transport of goods to consumers, and to all recreational and vacation areas of the continent.

Technocrats state that rather than trying to solve all the logistical problems within the framework of existing cities, it is best to start with creative ideas as to planning that do not revolve around money, as the present ideas have in a Price System society. Building more thoughtful and creative forms of housing and transportation would involve recycling resources ( e.g. steel, concrete, glass, plastics etc.), which would then go into building a more efficient system,thus reducing the need to extract and process new materials and lessen environmental damage. This article needs additional references or sources to facilitate its verification. ...

Criticisms of the movement

Technocrats themselves argue that those in power, politicians and heads of corporations, are a form of organized opposition.^{[citation needed]} The movement claims that this opposition has helped spread a negative connotation to the term technocracy and the ideas associated with it.

Critics make the following claims regarding technocracy:

• There is no possible way to eliminate the scarcity of products in the modern world, especially given the large variety that exists today.
• The theory that labor time could be drastically reduced at current productivity levels seems extremely suspect given the low unemployment rate in modern Western societies.
  • Technocrats, on the other hand, see these societies as inefficient and wasteful, and argue that the unemployment rate is not an accurate measure of the total amount of people working and the amount of work being performed. In the United States, of those of working age, only 65% participate in the economy,^[2] while European countries have an even smaller proportion^[3]. Moreover, a significant number of employees work in industries such as finance, advertising, and retail. Many of these jobs would disappear after the transition from a monetary economy to a technocracy, meaning that the "adjusted" unemployment rate (a measure excluding such pecuniary jobs) is much higher than indicated.
• The movement lacks organization and a clear path.
• Technology cannot solve all of our problems.
• Naturally scarce things (e.g. gold, diamonds, the Mona Lisa) are impossible to distribute equally.
  • A Technocratic rebuttal to this criticism might be that under Technocracy, these things would have no greater value than their actual worth in producing other goods or their utility in generating energy. Gold and diamonds would have no special value due to their scarcity. Technocrats argue that in the consumerist societies of today, the majority of what people consume is made by machine, usually in some form of mass production or scientific management; thus, the majority of consumables is subject to complete automation. Naturally scarce things are so scarce that they will not have an effect on a technocratic society.
    • A second rebuttal is that Diamonds are only "scarce" due to their controlled limited release, not due to any actual rarity of the gem. Many other "valuable" commodities are propped up by similar purposely limited-supply and marketing schemes.
• Many people believe that human beings are materially selfish and would not be willing to work unless that work gave them some direct material benefit; thus the technate would fail to function due to a shortage of labor.
  • Technocrats do not see an unwillingness to work as a problem. They posit that a technocratic society would seek to eventually eliminate the majority of human labor altogether through automation. As for the remaining jobs, technocrats hold that many citizens would continue to work given that they have the skills and/or if they enjoy it. Moreover, technocrats believe that those who refuse to work, without sufficient reason, would lose respect in the eyes of their fellow citizens.
  • As the efficiency of the system continues to increase and advance, the living standard of all humans would improve, thus yielding a tangible material gain due to a collective work effort.
• Many critics believe that the entire Technocratic system relies on the notion that human want is finite.
  • Technocrats, however, make no such claim. Instead, they make no statement regarding human "want", only that the human ability to actually consume is finite. This is exampled by such things as food, or transportation. While one can "own" any amount of cars in a scarcity system, they can only actually "consume" so much transportation; that is, they can only drive (or fly, etc.) for so many hours in a day. Since the very concept of ownership would be different in a Technate, citizens would not own methods of transportation, but only use them to whatever amount they like, limited only by how much they physically can.

The Sellout of the Ages by Howard Scott, a Technocracy Inc. publication.

Map of the North American Technate, taken from the TTCD, Page 22

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Technocracy Incorporated Publications

• Technocracy Study Course [Technocracy, Inc.] (1934)
• Technocracy Handbook [Technocracy, Inc.], (1939)
• The Sellout of the Ages, Howard Scott, (1941)
• Our Country, Right or Wrong, (1946)
• Continentalism: The Mandate of Survival, (1947)

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Further reading

Books on the early history of the Technocratic movement:

• William E. Akin, Technocracy and the American Dream: The Technocrat Movement, 1900-1941 (University of California Press, 1977) ISBN 0-520-03110-5
• Henry Elsner, The Technocrats, Prophets of Automation (Syracuse University Press, 1967)
• Harold Loeb, Life in a Technocracy. What it Might Be Like (The Viking Press, 1933)
• Allen Raymond, What is Technocracy? (McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., LTD., 1933)

Elsner's account is from a sociological perspective. Akin's book is much more detailed, though deals mostly with the intellectual history of the movement. Neither book is terribly critical of the movement, though they both agree that the Technocrats' influence on American history has been negligible. The authors argue that Technocracy gained a fair amount of national press attention in the midst of the Great Depression, but their time in the spotlight lasted scarcely a year, from 1932-33. Harold Albert Loeb (1891–1974) was an American figure active in the arts in Paris in the 1920s. ... Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will take you to a full 1932 calendar). ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ...

Technocracy in fiction

Science fiction writer Howard Waldrop's short story "You Could Go Home Again" postulates an alternate history where a technocratic government came to power in the United States, resulting in many historical differences, including World War II having never happened. However, Waldrop never intended for the story to be an accurate depiction of Technocracy, instead only borrowing elements from it as a backdrop for his story. Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Howard Waldrop (born September 15, 1946) in Houston, Mississippi, and got his degree from the University of Texas. ... Alternate history (fiction) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

The United Federation of Planets in Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek franchise bears some similarity to a Technocratic society. Although its economics are rarely discussed in detail, the Federation is almost certainly some form of Post scarcity, moneyless society. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Gene Roddenberry Eugene Wesley Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American scriptwriter and producer. ... The current Star Trek franchise logo Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment series. ... A post-scarcity economy is a hypothetical form of economy or society, often explored in science fiction, in which valuable things (material, energy or information) are free or practically free, creating abundance. ...

Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy describes the development of a highly automated society who's economy was based on caloric input/output and had few materials valued based on their scarcity, thus bearing some similarities to Technocratic ideas. Kim Stanley Robinson at the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow, August 2005 Kim Stanley Robinson (born March 23, 1952) is an American science fiction writer, probably best known for his award-winning Mars trilogy. ...

Satirical Treatments

The Technocratic movement was the subject of several satires in the 1930s. A special notable "Technocracy Number" of Judge humor magazine illustrated by Dr. Seuss made fun of Technocracy, Inc. and featured satirical rhymes at the expense of Frederick Soddy. In a 1933 Flip the Frog cartoon “Techno-Cracked”, Flip builds a robot to work for him and gets a lesson in unintended consequences. The Judge was a magazine published in the United States of America around the turn of the century. ... Theodor Seuss Geisel (March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991) was a famous American writer and cartoonist best known for his classic childrens books under the pen name Dr. Seuss, including The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, Fox in... Frederick Soddy in 1922. ... Flip the Frog and his girlfriend. ...

References

1. ^ Akin, William E. (1977). Technocracy and the American Dream: The Technocrat Movement, 1900-1941. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-03110-5. 
2. ^ U.S. Department of Labor. Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey. Retrieved on 2006-04-09.
3. ^ European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions. Labour force participation. Retrieved on 2006-12-28.

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See also

• Howard Scott
• M. King Hubbert
• Monad (Technocracy)
• Technocratic views of the Price system
• Technocracy Study Course
• Thorstein Veblen

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External links

• Technocracy Incorporated (Official Website)
• Historical Background and Development of Social Security from the U.S. Social Security Administration (see section Technocracy)
• Technocracy Study Course (TSC) (PDF)