The Data Delusion | The New Yorker |Pacific Updates
[ad_1] And why bother? By the nineteen-thirties, the fantasy of technological supremacy had found its fullest expression in the Technocracy movement, which, during the Depression, vied with socialism and fascism as an alternative to capitalism and liberal democracy. “Technocracy, briefly stated, is the application of science to the social order,” a pamphlet called “Technocracy in…