How did Technocracy originate?
Technocracy had its inception in 1919 in New York City in an organization known as the Technical Alliance of North America. This group included such people as Thorstein Veblen, a distinguished educator in the field of social science, sometimes called the ‘stormy petrel of American economics’; consulting engineer and mathematician Basset Jones; physics Professor Richard Tolman; consulting architect Frederick L. Ackerman; and Stuart Chase, popular economist and author. Heading the group as chief engineer was Howard Scott, outstanding consulting and industrial engineer. The primary aim of the Technical Alliance was to ascertain the possibility of applying the achievements of science to social and industrial affairs. With this in mind, they set about to make a survey of the energy and natural resources of the North American Continent – all that territory included between the Panama Canal and the North Pole. In addition, they showed graphically the operating characteristics of the present i
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