WI: The Technocracy Movement was Successful?

(Sources would be good, still.)

PM me your e-mail and I'll send you my copies. I have a scan of the original article for the genocide comments. For total conscription, I have a secondary source with a ton of quotes.

More generally, aside from the Technocracy Study Course - which is their founding document, the equivalent of Marx's Das Kapital - I'd also call out the following secondary sources as worthwhile:

Adair, David. The Technocrats 1919-1967: A Case Study of Conflict and Change in a Social Movement.
Akin, William. Technocracy and the American Dream.
Elsner, William. The Technocrats: Prophets of Automation.
 
I've personally found that people who claim not to be motivated by ideology and instead come to their conclusions using empiricism tend to be the most ideological people, probably because when you think you're objectively right it's impossible to persuade you.
Some people are so intelligent, they become convinced they are correct about everything.
 
I haven't gone into detail how the Chaos TL technocracy would choose who becomes technocrats, but certainly they must have a way to do so. Even if it's a flawed way.
 

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Howard Scott was _insane_. According to Ford Maddox Ford, an English novelist who briefly met Scott, he had plans to exterminate all the Catholics, Jews and Italians, and build a machine that would convert the energy from the burning corpses of Jews into electrical energy. Enough said.
 
Technocracy as it was originally envisioned probably wouldn't have succeded. It would need to reform and broaden its horizons to probably work. Psychology and sociology would be applied in order to best manage people and see to their needs. Probably have a system set in place so people have a sense of autonomy and control in their life while still promoting the advancement of science and technology. There would have to be some way to let people choose their rulers though it could be a balance of taking the smart folk and voting for them.
 
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