technocracyn.

1895 Econ. Jrnl. 5 9 (note) Compare the annual contest between ‘physiocracy,’ leading towards ‘nihilism,’ and ‘technocracy’ in the history of medicine.

1919 W. H. Smyth in Industr. Management Mar. 211/2 For this unique experiment in rationalized Industrial Democracy I have coined the term ‘technocracy’.

1932 N.Y. Herald-Tribune 15 Dec. 11/1 Technocracy..the name for a new system and philosophy of government, in which the nation's industrial resources should be organized and managed by technically competent persons for the good of everyone instead of being left to the management of private interests for their own advantage.

1933 Times 5 Jan. 11/6 The underlying thesis of technocracy is that the tremendous technological advance which has been made in industrial processes during the past century..has rendered all existing social and economic mechanism obsolete and futile.

1975 Polit. Stud. 23 82 Nevertheless, if technocracy means rule not just by individuals who are members of a particular technocratic élite, but rule by a technocratic class as such, one has to show that the latter has either a common interest to defend or a common ideology to pursue.

2002 A. Feenberg Transforming Technol. (rev. ed.) i. 32 Normalization is not the only source of modern structures of domination, nor is it sufficient today to denounce the dystopian potential of technocracy.

1924 N.Y. Times 23 Mar. xx. 1/3 Mr Wilson emphasizes that much of the power to make war, either on the field or behind the lines, is within the grasp of what he calls the technocracy.

1955 Times 23 May 3/4 On the unlikely day when England elects a benevolent technocracy to power a Bill will be passed forbidding more than one performance per year per town of such works as The Messiah, the St. Matthew Passion, [etc.].

1987 T. Horton Bay Country (1989) iv. 88 The sizeable technocracy required to maintain the quality of the effluent that enters the Potomac is housed in a soaring, pyramidlike headquarters building.

1995 .net Feb. 23/1 A relatively small technocracy is all that will be required to operate the manufacturing systems and institutions of the future.

1925 Amer. Econ. Rev. 15 57 This calls for an evolution of our scheme of values, not for a ‘technocracy’ which ignores value.

1932 C. Van Vechten Let. 31 Dec. in L. Hughes & C. Van Vechten Remember me to Harlem (2001) 101 I shouldn't wonder if this country would be..a Technocracy by the time you arrive.

1970 R. Thorp & R. Blake Music of their Laughter 2/2 If there is a generation gap, it encompasses all the differences between the lessening number of people who remember the older America, and the growing army of cataloged and numbered citizens of a brand-new technocracy of the same name.

1992 N. Postman Technopoly ii. 28 In a technocracy, tools play a central role in the thought-world of the culture.