technocracy
pronunciation
How to pronounce technocracy in British English:
UK [tekˈnɒkrəsi]
How to pronounce technocracy in American English:
US [tekˈnɑkrəsi]
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- Noun:
- a form of government in which scientists and technical experts are in control
Word Origin
- technocracy (n.)
- 1919, coined by W.H. Smyth as a name for a new system of government by technical experts, from techno- + -cracy. William Henry Smyth, a distinguished engineer of Berkeley, California, wrote at the close of the war a series of thoughtful papers for the New York magazine "Industrial Management", on the subject of "Technocracy". His thesis was the need of a Supreme National Council of Scientists to advise us how best to live, and how most efficiently to realize our individual aspirations and our national purpose. ["The Bookman," March 1922]
Example
- 1. It is not only one-party states that like technocracy .
- 2. From utopia to idealogy -- culture essence of the western technocracy .
- 3. Through technology and technocracy , mr rudd hopes to avoid being impaled on the horns of a herd of approaching dilemmas .
- 4. Singapore is perhaps the best advertisement for technocracy : the political and expert components of the governing system there seem to have merged completely .
- 5. A rapid rollout of china 's high-speed rail network was followed in july by a slowdown after a fatal train crash : technocracy did not prevent corruption and poor quality-control .