The Technate Blueprint That Wouldn’t Die: Technocracy, The Technate, and the Familiar Shape of American Ambition

How a 1930s movement to replace democracy with experts is echoing in today’s political and tech landscape

In the 1930s, a serious and well-organized movement decided that democracy had run its course. They called themselves Technocrats, and their argument was simple. The modern world had grown too complicated for politicians, too complex for ordinary voters, and too important to be left to the chaos of elections and public debate. What society needed, they …