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Technocracy

//tɛkˈnɒkɹəsi// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise. countable, uncountable

    "When scientific imagination and knowledge of Nature's Laws are substituted in our economics for chance, mystery, and magic;[…] when this economic childish irrationality is sanely substituted by organized Science, Technology, and specialized Skill co-ordinated in National Industrial Management, then will begin real civilization, the Age of Social Sanity, — Technocracy."

  2. 2
    a form of government in which scientists and technical experts are in control wordnet

Etymology

From techno- (“technical”, “technicians”) + -cracy (“rule by”), attributed to W.H. Smyth.

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