AH Challenge: Have the US become a technocracy

Well, the title says it all, by 1989 have the United States become an official technocracy.

Bonus points if they somehow drag Canada with them.
 
Interesting. A bit difficult, though, given the American (and general Anglo-Saxon) distrust for the scholar-bureaucrat.
 
Well, the title says it all, by 1989 have the United States become an official technocracy.

Bonus points if they somehow drag Canada with them.


Technocracy is rather nebulous term, so it would help me be able to think more about my ideas on this if you could further define exactly what this society would be like.

Nonetheless I think it is a rather interesting idea. Probably rather hard in the US with its individualistic culture, but probably more likely in a continental European nation.

Just a question for all other posters: What would you say is the most technocratic nation in the world at present (in relative terms).
 

67th Tigers

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Just a question for all other posters: What would you say is the most technocratic nation in the world at present (in relative terms).

We've only ever had one true technocracy, the pre-Stalin Soviet Union. The progress made was astounding. One of the freest and most progressive states the world has ever seen....
 
We've only ever had one true technocracy, the pre-Stalin Soviet Union. The progress made was astounding. One of the freest and most progressive states the world has ever seen....

???

The Soviet industrial base boomed under Stalin, not beforehand.
 
Sorry, just woke up.

The wiki definition of technocracy is what I meant. so Bishop has it right.

I really should have said what I meant by technocracy, sorry about that.
 

Krall

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So you weren't refering to the Technocraty movement or Technocracy Inc., the usual meaning of the term?
 
So you weren't refering to the Technocraty movement or Technocracy Inc., the usual meaning of the term?

Uh, no, I was referring to the actual definition itself, but those are both still valid if people want to use them.

I didn't want to narrow people down to that, I wanted them to have more options.
 
True technocracy is based on scientists, technicians, engineers. Not rotten bureaucracy and political weaklings. :cool:

Well done, Captain Incomprehension. Note, I said scholar-bureaucrats i.e. the people making up the upper echelons of the bureaucracy are supposed to be experts in their fields.
 
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