“Welcome to the Technocracy” | A look into the forgotten Technocracy movement of the 1930s and how it predicted Silicon Valley’s worldview
https://novum.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-technocracy
“Welcome to the Technocracy” | A look into the forgotten Technocracy movement of the 1930s and how it predicted Silicon Valley’s worldview
https://novum.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-technocracy
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Submission statement: Technocracy Incorporated was a futurist-fascist movement in the 1930s which sought to replace the state and liberal capitalism with an organizing committee of engineers and technicians. At its peak, they had hundreds of thousands of members and were hotly discussed in the papers. They viewed technology as the only, real revolutionary agent.
Today, tech elites have unconsciously revived its core ideas: namely, (1) social engineering and quantifying social relations, (2) viewing technology as the only revolutionary agent, and (3) viewing democracy as an obstacle for their ends.