Technocracy in a sentence as a noun

So the law is a triumph of democracy over technocracy. > And I think that's reflected in the legislation.

So the law is a triumph of democracy over technocracy. And I think that's reflected in the legislation.

Netflix does offer us a good demonstration of the failings of absolute technocracy, but it leaves the question of how best to rate movies wide open.

Keep in mind you're posting this to a site where most people, or at least the most vocal people, don't think the arts and letters have much value and think that pure technocracy would be a fine thing. I won't argue further, but it's neither my vision of most people here, nor the vision I have of most vocal people here.

Basically technocracy. I think the EU is converging on the same system of government from a different direction. I'm not saying technocracy is a wonderful system of government either, but it won't be hard to do a better job than democracy.

In the short term, it caused chaos and starvation and massive deaths: but in the long term, it laid the foundations for a technocracy. Today's Chinese party politburo are primarily engineers and scientists who grew up during the cultural revolution, not the spiritual heirs to the earlier system.

> What we need, is some form of technocracy-democracy, where only people able to comprehend the problem at hand are allowed to vote. That sounds like one of those ideas that looks good on paper, but then human nature sets in and the 'only people able to comprehend the problem' become corrupt and we end up with a dystopia.

While a technocracy is a good thing in theory, I'm always concerned about the likelihood of it turning into a serious echo chamber. If the only people involved in, say, banking are people who have domain-specific knowledge, what is the likelihood that you're going to get anything new out of it?

The basic problem with Manna is that it's still a totalitarian technocracy. Literally totalitarian: you're normally supposed to be frightened of the government tapping into your central nervous system, you know?

"[Packer]s clearly onto something in the way the experience of continuously solving seemingly insoluble technical problems can lead the technocracy to dismiss the challenges of actual societies or, worse, decide theyre simply above them." This rings true for a number of issues in San Francisco.

If he's engaging in naive statist technocracy, you're engaging in naive proprietarian minarchism: "Just get the state out of everything except property and contracts and it'll all work out fine somehow!"

Not macroeconomics in particular, but insofar as it is a compromise between technocracy and majority rule and self determination. Philosophers and political theorist have been struggling with this since before Plato's Republic.

In fact many old-school communists first got inspired by late-19th-century capitalism's trend towards managed technocracy. There was a large movement in business that argued that production could be scientifically optimized using statistics, data collection, scientific management, etc.

Will socialism emerge from our globally, militarily exported democratocapitalismywayorthehighway technocracy? Perhaps, but decentralization of political and mass-media control needs to be won back first.

Technocracy definitions

noun

a form of government in which scientists and technical experts are in control; "technocracy was described as that society in which those who govern justify themselves by appeal to technical experts who justify themselves by appeal to scientific forms of knowledge"