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Thanks for the links - I didn't realise the technocrats were still going.
Big Gav, you may also be interested in these links:
http://www.technocracy.org/ - official site of Technocracy, Inc
http://www.technocracy.ca/ - unofficial site (this site is a bit disorganized but has some decent info if you are willing to do some digging)
"I didn't realise the technocrats were still going"
Yes, we are still around :)
Technocracy Inc. has survived since 1933. The other major technocratic organisation is the Network of European Technocrats (which started in 2004). NET has a number of members who are professional scientist and engineers (with engineering degrees, science degrees and PhDs) and we work on a technocratic plan mainly for Europe (but the plan could have applicability elsewhere and we do have members in Australia). In short, our plan takes a holonic, distributed form centred around localised communities to reduce energy demands. We also aim to test out these ideas both through simulation and actual communities and we have work under way in both of those areas.
I recently gave a presentation on NET's plan as a guest lecturer at Umeå University in Sweden (entitled "Technocracy: Building a New Sustainable Society for a Post Carbon World"). If you would like, I could send you the slides but we also have articles up on our site (http://en.technocracynet.eu/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1).
The main ones of interest are:
http://en.technocracynet.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=75...
http://en.technocracynet.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10...
http://en.technocracynet.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=56...
They present an out line of a sustainable society (we are not just concerned with peak oil but also with the sustainability of society as a whole) composed of a network of communities as well as plans to move from today's unsustainable society to a future sustainable society. The science behind the ideas come from the areas of distributed artificial intelligence and distributed manufacturing as well as the thermodynamic interpretation of economics (in common with Tech inc).
Dr. Andrew Wallace BEng(hons)EurIng PhD
Director of NET.