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	Technocratic movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The technocratic movement was a social movement in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s that advocated a form of society where the welfare of human beings is optimized by means of scientific analysis and widespread use of technology.
		The reason given by the Technocratic movement for all this ambitious restructuring of urban life is that modern cities are often extremely poorly planned and built in a haphazard way leading to major inefficiencies, waste, and large numbers of social and environmental problems.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Technocratic_movement (2369 words)

	Technocracy (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The social and economic system proposed by the Technocratic movement and the organization Technocracy, Inc., which believes that modern technology and a government organized on a scientific basis can lead to a society of abundance.
		Technocracy (bureaucratic), a government run by the highly educated.
		Technocracy (World of Darkness) (or Technocratic Union), a fictional world-wide conspiracy that employs a scientific paradigm to pursue an agenda opposed to superstition and faith-based belief systems and dedicated to the victory of science as the primary world belief system, in the role-playing game Mage: The Ascension.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Technocracy (355 words)

	The Technocracy Movement
		Technocracy was a political-economic movement headed by Howard Scott and based upon some ideas of the economist Thorstein Veblen.
		Technocracy stressed, as indicated above, the tremendous increase in productivities that had occurred in recent years in some industries and traced the economic downturn of the early 1930's to this increase in productivity that resulted in layoffs of workers.
		Technocracy asserted that the unit of currency should be energy.
	www.sjsu.edu /faculty/watkins/technocracy.htm (530 words)

	History and Purpose of Technocracy
		Technocracy has always contended that Marxian political philosophy and Marxian economics were never sufficiently radical or revolutionary to handle the problems brought on by the impact of technology in a large size national society of today.
		Technocracy Inc. is not a political party; it does not run candidates for political office, nor does it accept for membership any one who is a member or officer of any political party, right, left or center.
		Technocracy was proposing a technological re-design of the Continent in a closed-field of operation.
	www.technocracy.ca /simp/history.htm (11039 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Opinion :: Books Movement Manifesto
		Movement is not just a book about the revolution, a scrapbook of authentic notes from the underground; it is a truly revolutionary book, and as such it relies heavily- though by no means entirely- on selections from the underground press.
		Both the book Movement and the movement itself are all too aware that a medium which devotes 101/2 feet of news coverage to Kent State and only 29 inches to Orangeburg- as the New York Times did- is a medium that we cannot trust.
		To organize material for a movement which includes fl, red, brown, women, gay, high school, and worker liberation movements- as well as one for rich white kids- is an enormous task, but Goodman and his collaborators have done an excellent job.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=354408 (768 words)

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		Technocracy exploded into public attention in the fall of 1932, when the Depression was near its most severe point.
		What Technocracy and its chief prophet were saying was perhaps just what a depression-ridden country wanted most to hear: that the present tribulations were transitional, intermediate to an epoch of wealth far beyond the pinnacle of the late de parted prosperity.
		In all of this outpouring, the word "technocracy" was freely used to express all manner of hopes and fears about the economic order, with little understanding of the work of the New York group--partly because of the ambiguity and the complex terminology of its few published statements.
	www.towson.edu /~sallen/COURSES/311/ESSAYS/Technocrats.html (4319 words)

	mamay
		To analyse social movements separately, in abstraction from the social structure, is to limit the problem by superficial analysis, which is not fruitful and does not allow us to understand the nature of social movements.
		The supporters of the `resource mobilisation' approach think that the social movement is the form of adaptation and accommodation of society that is the natural moment of development, as a reaction to changes, of a society without sharp contradictions.
		They stress the possibillity of both cases, although the `new social movements' approach is closer to the explanation of conflicts as a manifestation of social contradictions and the `new values' approach is closer to the opposite point of view.
	lucy.ukc.ac.uk /csacpub/russian/mamay.html (5586 words)

	Wiener Andor, "Technocracy or Industrial Unionism"
		Technocracy’s works up till now have been filled sky high with numerical data, which makes it almost impossible for us to give a review of it on such grounds.
		This dry, bony, lanky American engineer’s visionary figure appears everywhere where Technocracy is discussed, whether siding in favor of, or in opposition to it.
		The one thing Technocracy did bring us is that now we too can bravely plead great men, scientists of our times; we can say it’s not just us callous-handed workers who say this, but the Technocrats say it too.
	marxists.org /history/usa/unions/iww/1933/wiener.htm (4359 words)

	UBC Special Collections - Archival Research Collections T-V
		The Technocracy Movement began in 1918-1919 when Howard Scott brought together a group of economists, engineers and scientists for the purposes of creating a research organization.
		Technocracy is primarily a North American focused organization, and it aims to recreate the continent’s social and economic systems by imposing a scientific system upon the existing industrial and social structures.
		One of the key points of Technocracy is the redistribution of wealth through the application of a new method of distributing purchasing power to the population at large, known as the Energy Certificate.
	www.library.ubc.ca /spcoll/AZ/inventories/rescolt.html (2143 words)

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		This was soon rejected by scholars of social movements as they tried to show that a lot of these movements did not lack coherence and design and were not a result of irrational reaction as were said to be.
		Social movements involve a process of self-awareness to create human and social identities which are free of the domination of the technocratic state and the market.
		Thus the movements themselves were affected by the repressive policies of the state and the suppression of traditional forms of organisation, such as trade unions and political parties.
	pioneer.netserv.chula.ac.th /~ppasuk/theorysocmovt.doc (3769 words)

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		Technocracy means `rule by experts', a phrase which naturally suggests the question, `experts on what?'.
		Thus, a necessary precondition for techocracy is the emergence of a class of engineers with experience in handling large enterprises, a class which started to emerge at the beginning of the last century in response to the introduction of mass production and the assembly line.
		The study would concentrate on the amount of waste in the current system, and would have two benefits: it would raise awareness of the irrationality of the current system, and it would provide the engineers with the necessary data for building a better one.
	www.ensc.sfu.ca /people/faculty/jones/ENSC100/Unit18/lecture18.html (1625 words)

	ArtandCulture Movement: New German Cinema (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Schlöndorff’s work opened the door to a revolutionary movement that would include such notables as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, and Wim Wenders -- the latter being the current-day filmic master on the topics of memory, history, and desire.
		The aesthetic goal of the movement would be to create a kind of formalistic beauty through the use of light and color.
		The philosophical intent was to critique the technocracy Germany had become in its efforts to recuperate from the decimation of the war.
	www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/movement?id=384 (310 words)

	Kevin Baker
		Reform party movements can be pretty weird in the best of times; imagine what they might have been like in the worst.
		The technocracy movement had peaked but was by no means moribund when the photographer Dorothea Lange spotted this sign offering its wan blandishments beside an Oregon highway in 1939.
		Technocracy clubs continued to exist and even grow right up until the Second World War, but the steam had gone out of the movement.
	www.kevinbaker.info /c_tes.html (1503 words)

	Neoconservativism: The Cult of Techno-Socialism \| Paul and Phillip Collins
		In fact, the Nationalist movement that sprouted from Bellamy's sci-fi predictive programming could be considered "a precursor to the Technocrats, and its members 'pre-Technocrats'" (Crabtree 8).
		Technocracy was a logical outgrowth of earlier variants of socialism.
		Eschewing the "postindustrial" portraits of Technocracy, Brzezinski fancies the euphemism of "technetronic" society (101).
	www.conspiracyarchive.com /Commentary/Technocrats.htm (3490 words)

	Freedom of Conscience \| International Humanist and Ethical Union
		It reflects the shift in the history of the modern humanist movement from predominantly anti-religious activities to the creation of a constructive alternative helping society face its psychological, social and legal questions.
		This shift took place in Europe as an answer to the terrifying experiences of the Second World War and gave birth to national humanist movements from 1946 on, to the international humanist movement in 1952, and to the European humanist movement in 1991.
		The modern humanist movement did not found humanist schools because life stance based schools might become dogmatic and indoctrinate their philosophy of life.
	www.iheu.org /node/373 (2654 words)

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		What I am calling the mainstream of the movement did not have a line so much as an inclination to believe and act in a way reflected in the unfolding of the Events and the accompanying flurry of leaflets.
		It was their participation in the movement that made it a serious challenge to the government.
		It is of course still quite uncertain that the attack on technocracy from above in the student movement and the administrations could have been successfully coordinated with the attack on capitalism from below in the radical wing of the workers' movement.
	www-rohan.sdsu.edu /faculty/feenberg/MAYTALK2.HTM (3426 words)

	PoliticsForum.org - View topic - Why is technocracy so obscure? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Technocracy is not in the habit of whining about the injustices heaped upon it.
		Technocracy held that all politics and all economic arrangements based on the "Price System" (i.e., based on traditional economic theory) were antiquated and that the only hope of building a successful modern world was to let engineers and other technology experts run the country on engineering principles.
		Technocracy, on the other hand, has the requirement of being self-sufficient; therefore it would be impossible to have this motivation for aggressive action.
	www.politicsforum.org /forum/viewtopic.php?t=38733 (13442 words)

	Moviment Graffitti Forum :: View topic - Technocracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		If technocracy will be used under a capitalist system it would increase the process of division of labour and thus create a more organic style of production which seperates the workers from the product.
		If technocracy can be used to create a heterogeneous form of production, were the worker is in control of the product and can sell it by own means, than I would be in favour of technocracy.
		The technocratic movement is a social movement that advocates the optimization of the welfare of human beings, by means of scientific analyses and engineered action.
	www.movimentgraffitti.org /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=167& (603 words)

	Revolutionary Anarchism & the Anti-Globalization Movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Some are rightly concerned about the presence of reformist and middle-class elements such as NGOs in the movement; others point to the unexpected support of far right groups such as fascists and Islamic fundamentalists for 'anti-globalization'; for others, there are suspicions about the role of right-wing trade union leaders in the movement.
		The new movement represents an important development for the international working class and a massive opportunity for the anarchist movement at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
		Seizing the moment, being involved, shaping the movement - this is the best opportunity available today to implanting anarchism within the working class and clawing our way back to our rightful place as a movement of millions, a movement that can help dig capitalism's grave.
	www.struggle.ws /rbr/rbr5/lucien.html (2011 words)

	Cyberpunk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term was quickly appropriated as a label to be applied to the works of Bruce Sterling, John Shirley, William Gibson, Rudy Rucker, Michael Swanwick, Pat Cadigan, Lewis Shiner, Richard Kadrey and others.
		However, starting around the year 1990, popular culture began to include a movement in both music and fashion which called itself "cyberpunk", and which became particularly associated with the rave and techno subcultures.
		The hacker subculture, documented in places like the Jargon File, regards this movement with mixed feelings, since self-proclaimed cyberpunks are often "trendoids" with an affection for fl leather and chrome who speak enthusiastically about technology instead of learning about it or becoming involved with it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cyberpunk (4154 words)

	Technocracy Inc.
		Therefore, nothing short of a financial debacle -- that compares with the depression of the 1930s -- is likely to force public interest, or financial interest, into making the changes required.
		Already, the present economic instability is creating more interest in Technocracy.
		Technocracy Inc. endorses open source software and encourages its use.
	www.technocracy.org /?p=/documents/briefs/b79 (1032 words)

	Denouement
		After the peak of public interest in 1932, the technocracy movement began to decline, to split, and to self-destruct.
		One was his readiness to admit that technocracy was necesarily an undemocratic movement.
		Although this marked the end of technocracy's credibility in eastern America, splinter groups continued to develop and evolve in the western States and in western Canada.
	www.ensc.sfu.ca /people/faculty/jones/ENSC100/Unit18/node2.html (558 words)

	THE RISE AND FALL OF THE HUBBERT CURVE: ITS ORIGINS AND CURRENT PERCEPTIONS
		He wrote a textbook that was used for teaching the principles of the movement: the Technocracy Study Course.
		The Technocracy movement withered within a few years but Hubbert resuscitated his ideas about applying a bell-shaped curve to oil production data after he joined Shell in 1947.
		The Technocracy movement was not successful but the notion of technocracy was ahead of its time.
	gsa.confex.com /gsa/2003AM/finalprogram/abstract_61689.htm (500 words)

	GI -- World War II Commemoration
		On the one hand, there was a crisis in industrial capitalism as it advanced from an earlier, liberal phase to one marked by technocracy and regulation.
		Its organization became increasingly diversified and specialized, so that by 1932, just before it gained exclusive control of the state, the party might have appeared as a mirror image of the state, except that Hitler's dictatorial leadership of the party differed from the chancellor's role in the state.
		As a movement, by contrast, Nazism was an emotional community, mobilized for revolutionary action.
	www.grolier.com /wwii/wwii_national.html (1820 words)

	Jackson Vs. Technocracy
		True, he was not hand-picked by a fair ballot of all members of any mass movement.
		It was by substituting starring on the seven o'clock news in photogenic pre-arranged dinner-jacket civil disobedience for creating sustained community-based opposition that the early anti-apartheid movement temporarily dissipated its own potentials.
		And it was (and is) in pursuit of media respectability that countless social-democratic electoral campaigns sacrifice worker participation and grassroots excitement to coordinator administration.
	www.zmag.org /ZMag/articles/albertold23.htm (1841 words)

	Howard Scott
		Howard Scott was an admirer of Thorstein Veblen and the founder of the Technical Alliance, a research organization dedicated to promoting the scientific management of society.
		Scott later founded Technocracy, Inc. The "Technocracy movement" (which included other organizations, most notably the Continental Committee on Technocracy) received a great deal of attention in the Depression, as it seemed to promise boundless prosperity in a glittering, modern, scientifically-managed society.
		Technocracy, Inc. is still in existence and welcomes inquiries.
	www.workerseducation.org /cic/history/scott.html (378 words)

	Strange American Industrial Utopians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		I believe "Technocracy Incorporated" was frighteningly limited in its social imagination (and, therefore, dangerous), but earnest, civic minded, and in many ways way ahead of its time --especially as to its apparent social motivation.
		It is this law which in current physical theory is treated as a special case of the theory of probabilities: the state of a material system at any moment is a statistical expression of the combined (and individually indeterminate) states of the particles of which it is composed.
		In Technocracy, there are many `little' jobs to be done which are as important as the so-called big jobs.
	uci.net /~goto/technos (2895 words)

	Anarcho - Technocracy. The Politics of Things (1953) by Harry Hooton
		We tend to think of technocracy as a crank cult of the thirties.
		Of course, in adopting technocracy, in adapting it to our needs we must dissociate it from its present advocates.
		All organisations up to the present, including technocracy, have failed because they have set out to organise human beings -- to discipline, rule their own members.
	www.takver.com /history/hooton_tech.htm (2164 words)

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