What is the “Three Curve Chart” that Technocrats keep mentioning?
Technocracy’s Three Curve Chart is a composite illustration of the economic trends that occurred in North America. It is important because it shows us the impact technology has had on the economy and our lives. This impact, when compared with any other factor in history, is one of the greatest importance to the human race, and indeed the entire planet, since what we do becomes far more important when we are doing a lot more of it. The chart consists of three graphs. The first shows the average amount of industrial production for the first half of this century. It shows a continual increase in production that strongly resembles a compound-interest type of curve. The second graph represents the average man-hours worked per unit of production made. This represents how much human labor actually went into making a certain item or service. Here we see an accelerating decline, representing how the use of increasingly powerful machines increases the amount of product or service that can be pro
