Technical Alliance
Towards the end of 1919, American engineer Howard Scott formed the Technical Alliance, a group of engineers, scientists, and technicians based in New York. The Technical Alliance started an Energy Survey of North America, aimed at documenting the wastefulness of the capitalist system.[1]
The Technical Alliance advocated a more rational and productive society headed by technical experts, but their survey work failed to have a significant impact. Although some waste was documented, the "prosperity and conservatism of the 1920s undermined the political orientation of the Technical Alliance", and it disbanded in 1921,[1][2][3] and the energy survey was not completed.[4]
The Technical Alliance was by no means a mass organization, but it did have some notable members and technical experts. Apart from Scott, other members of the Technical Alliance included:[5]
- Frederick L. Ackerman
- Carl C. Alsberg
- Alice Barrows
- Allen Carpenter
- Stuart Chase
- L.K. Comstock
- Bassett Jones
- Robert H. Kohn
- Benton Mackaye
- Leland Olds
- Charles P. Steinmetz
- Richard C. Tolman
- John C. Vaughan
- Thorstein Veblen
- Charles H. Whitaker
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Beverly H. Burris (1993). Technocracy at work State University of New York Press, p. 28.
- ↑ Howard P. Segal (2005). Technological Utopianism in American Culture Syracuse University Press, p. 121.
- ↑ William E. Aikin (1977). Technocracy and the American Dream: The Technocracy Movement 1900-1941, University of California Press, p. 37.
- ↑ William E. Aikin (1977). Technocracy and the American Dream: The Technocracy Movement 1900-1941, University of California Press, pp. 61-62.
- ↑ William E. Aikin (1977). Technocracy and the American Dream: The Technocracy Movement 1900-1941, University of California Press, pp. 34-35.