technocracy
noun
tech·noc·ra·cy
tek-ˈnä-krə-sē 
plural technocracies
: government by technicians
specifically
: management of society by technical experts
Examples of technocracy in a Sentence
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Today, American policy-makers must choose with respect to AI: freedom or technocracy, prosperity or economic insignificance.
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David McGarry, National Review, 11 Jan. 2024
Imposed by unelected mandarins, federal designs celebrate technocracy and faceless power.
—Myron Magnet, WSJ, 26 June 2023
In recent years, this has occurred when the country defers to technocracy, expecting that the best outcomes emerge when experts govern for rather than govern with the rest of the citizenry.
—Danielle Allen, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022
The ideal is pure technocracy.
—Hari Kunzru, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
The mission of maintaining US leadership in the sciences by reaping the fruits of education from around the world—while refusing to share knowledge—reveals an appalling sense of entitlement, an elitist ideology privileging technocracy, and the colonial logic of extraction and domination.
—Yangyang Cheng, Wired, 24 Feb. 2022
Perhaps this sounds benign in the obtuse verbiage of technocracy.
—Oren Cass, CNN, 15 Sep. 2022
It’s not that internationalist liberal technocracy has been relegated to the past.
—Hari Kunzru, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
Our stepwise innovations in CI systems—such as representative, nation-state democracy, capitalist and noncapitalist markets, and bureaucratic technocracy—have already shaped the modern world.
—Wired, 15 Aug. 2022
David McGarry, National Review, 11 Jan. 2024
Imposed by unelected mandarins, federal designs celebrate technocracy and faceless power.
—Myron Magnet, WSJ, 26 June 2023
In recent years, this has occurred when the country defers to technocracy, expecting that the best outcomes emerge when experts govern for rather than govern with the rest of the citizenry.
—Danielle Allen, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022
The ideal is pure technocracy.
—Hari Kunzru, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
The mission of maintaining US leadership in the sciences by reaping the fruits of education from around the world—while refusing to share knowledge—reveals an appalling sense of entitlement, an elitist ideology privileging technocracy, and the colonial logic of extraction and domination.
—Yangyang Cheng, Wired, 24 Feb. 2022
Perhaps this sounds benign in the obtuse verbiage of technocracy.
—Oren Cass, CNN, 15 Sep. 2022
It’s not that internationalist liberal technocracy has been relegated to the past.
—Hari Kunzru, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
Our stepwise innovations in CI systems—such as representative, nation-state democracy, capitalist and noncapitalist markets, and bureaucratic technocracy—have already shaped the modern world.
—Wired, 15 Aug. 2022
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“Technocracy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/technocracy. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.
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