Technocracy

Technocracy can refer to:

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• A bureaucratic technocracy (this derogatory use is the most common, and is what the French mean by the phrase).
• The Technocratic movement, started in 1933 by Technocracy Inc.
• A political attitude common to Thorstein Veblen and H. G. Wells (the latter's "samurai") who considered that the economy would be better off run by technical experts instead of private industry. See planned economy and anticipatory democracy.
• A technocratic government that is ruled by technology, usually a powerful, central artificial intelligence. Basically where sentient robots/computers/cyborgs rule over mankind and are using humans as servitors or, less realistically, as an natural power source and/or organic memory storage. The most famous example is in The Matrix, although the average person in the series doesn't actually know their "real" government is a technocracy.
• In the role-playing game ' published by White Wolf Game Studio, the is a group who is said to control reality through means of "application of new concepts".