The Technocratic Dilemma: Romancing Technology For Technology’s Sake

The Technocrat mindset is outside of practical experience, expecting to solve problems with ‘right parameters and rules’, where ‘implementation is taken for granted. The term “social engineering” is an oxymoron. ⁃ TN EditorWashington is in the throes of a rekindled romance with technocracy: the idea that what is most needed to save the economy and the planet is a bunch of really smart people who have spent their lives studying complicated problems like he