Редактирование: Technocracy (раздел)

== History ==

Technocracy as a word first appeared in W.H. Smyth's 1919 article “‘Technocracy’—Ways and Means to Gain Industrial Democracy”. The word entered the mainstream in the 1930s, however, when the Technocracy Movement presented an alternative form of socio-economic organization compared to the troubled Western states of the early 20th century, most specifically the United States under the Great Depression.

With the success of the New Deal and the Allied victory in the Second World War, the Technocracy Movement gradually faded into obscurity, although it survived up until this day.<ref>http://www.technocracyinc.org/</ref> The word has since come to refer to members of current governments who hold or purport to hold some form of expertise, usually related to higher learning institutions, and is often used with negative connotations.