TIL there was a briefly popular social movement in the early 1930s called the "Technocracy Movement." Technocrats proposed replacing politicians and businessmen with scientists and engineers who had the expertise to manage the economy.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement



Submitted April 11, 2015 at 06:13PM by Nugatorysurplusage http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3284f0/til_there_was_a_briefly_popular_social_movement/