Technocracy

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Technocracy ("techno" from the Greek tekhne for skill, "cracy" from the Greek kratos for "power") may refer to:

[edit] Political terms

• Technocracy (bureaucratic), a governmental or organizational system where decision makers are selected based upon how highly skilled and qualified they are, rather than how much political capital they hold. A form of government in which scientists and technical experts are in control; "technocracy is described as that society in which those who govern justify themselves by appeal to technical experts who justify themselves by appeal to scientific forms of knowledge"

[edit] Groups

• Technocracy Incorporated, North American organisation which began its research as the Technical Alliance in 1918, which advocates the Technate design for North America.
• Groupe X-Crise, a French technocrat movement in the 1930s and 40s.

[edit] In culture

• Technocracy movement, a social movement that started in the United States, advocating a post scarcity society based on energy accounting.
• Technocracy (Mage: The Ascension) (or Technocratic Union), a worldwide conspiracy in the RPG Mage: The Ascension
• Technocracy (EP), a 1987 EP by the band Corrosion of Conformity
• Technocrat (comics), a DC Comics character and former member of the Outsiders