Starting Points for Technocracy Literature

This page is intended to help you pick an appropriate starting point in Technocracy's literature according to your interests. Technocracy's body of thought covers a wide range of issues, and as more information becomes available via the web, it will get harder to find information about a particular subject.

Suggestions for this page are welcome (needed!).

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Environmental Issues: Many people seem to think that technology and science conflict with ecology; that a sustainable society cannot be technological. But Technocrats have long been concerned with environmental issues: The article The Ecology of Man was published in 1948, a time when few were talking about such issues. Some more recent articles clarifying this misunderstanding are: The Price System vs. The Environment: A Message To Environmental Groups, Accounting For Nature: Moving Toward Resource-Based Economics, Spotted Owl Fever (A Political Disease) and It Really Doesn't Grow On Trees. There are many other articles along these lines.
Resource Depletion: When will we run out of oil? fresh water? arable land? These, and many other, resources are essential to maintain human civilization, or even to our survival as a species. Determining the Most Probable by M. King Hubbert A more recent article is Racing Toward Finiteness
Technological Unemployment: Do machines create or destroy jobs? This was the primary questions that the predecesors to Technocracy were trying to answer. M. King Hubbert's pamphlet Man-Hours and Distribution is the most detailed approach to this problem.
History: If you are interested in the beginnings of Technocracy, The Hotel Pierre Address is a good starting point, as it was given at the heart of the Technocracy ``frenzy'' of 1932-3. The booklet Introduction To Technocracy was put out about the same time. A Statement of the Social Objectives of Technocracy was the first statement from Technocracy, Inc. in March, 1933.
More historical information can be found in the booklet History and Purpose of Technocracy.
Misrepresentation of Technocracy: Over the years, Technocracy has been misrepresented or the word misused. Many people have been labeled ``technocrats'', many of whom actually had opposing views. These articles address some of these misuses: Meanderings Into Obfuscation, Who Is A Technocrat?.
...: more to come