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technocracy
tek-NAW-kruh-see
noun
a government by technical experts and scientists
1935Sinclair Lewis It Can'T Happen Here...the 'Share the Wealth' and 'Every Man a King' proposals of the late Hon. Huey Long to assure every family $5000 a year, the Townsend plan, the Utopian plan, Technocracy, and all competent schemes of unemployment insurance…1970Alvin TofflerFuture ShockJust as, in the main, their alternatives to industrialism call for a return to pre-industrial institutions, their alternative to technocracy is not post- but pre-technocracy.1982Steven M. KrauzerRenegade Agent...the world was becoming a technocracy, a society managed by the technical experts.

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