“Technocracy was a progressive engineering movement founded by Howard Scott and Walter Rautenstrauch and centered at Columbia University School of Engineering.”

Take a browse over coffee; we’ve re-heard most of the ideas since, many quite recently, a weird blend of some-right-and-mostly-left-wing theses of “technology will take our jobs” & “universal basic income” & “technology will end crime”.

It’s… eye-opening.

https://archive.org/details/the-technocrats-magazine-1933_202011