Recently I downloaded and read the original plans of Technocracy Inc. in the Technocracy Study Course (1945). What I found was not a dusty historical curiosity. It was a clear, detailed blueprint for replacing elected government across an entire continent with a permanent technical hierarchy that answers to no one outside its own ranks. The authors stated their contempt for democracy, individual rights, and ordinary political consent. They designed a system in which a small group of appointed experts would measure every unit of energy, distribute every good and service, and leave the public with certificates instead of votes. The structure they described is no longer theoretical. It is presently being assembled under different names with tools the designers could only imagine. [Read More]