About This Site

This web site is an unofficial web site for Technocracy, Inc. on the Internet. It is maintained by Trent Fisher.

The official web site is at www.technocracyinc.org.

My intention is for this web site to be an extensive library of information about Technocracy, both of historic and current publications. Please see the official web site if you are new to Technocracy and/or you have specific questions.

Every page shold have a ``navigation bar'' like the one at the top of this page. With it you should be able to get to some higher-level index, or to the search page. I hope this will make it difficult to ``get lost''. This should also give all Technocracy pages a unique appearance, so they can be distingiushed from other web pages that have incorrect or misleading information about us or our body of thought.

I welcome any feedback about the structure of these web pages, and ways which will make them easier for you to use. Also if there are materials you want to see online, let me know. Send any such feedback to webmaster@technocracy.org. If you have questions about Technocracy's body of thought, please visit the official web site.

Tools

For those interested, these web pages were built using a variety of free software, mostly GNU Software (based on the Linux kernel, until the Hurd is stable enough for my purposes). Being a Configuration Management Engineer by trade, I treat web pages as any other sort of source code, keep it checked into a source control system, and use GNU Make to do many of the routine tasks.

Here are the notable packages I use:

PRCS
GNU Emacs, with html-helper-mode and W3
Glimpse and GlimpseHTTP for the search facility
Lynx
Perl is the language I use to write all my conversion filters, and other manipulation programs.
weblint

As for the actual web page structure and style, there were several web pages that helped: Jakob Nielsen's web site, and particularly his Alertbox column, has a wealth of information about what makes for a usable web site. In fact, I derived my ``navigation bar'' from his. Yale C/AIM Web Style Guide also has some good info. The Best Viewed With Any Browser page has links to many useful pages. I could use this opportunity to rant about the browser-bigoted, graphics intensive, java-crazed, mess that the World Wide Web is becoming, but I will restrain myself (for the moment).