[Ads-l] Antedating of "Technocrat"

[Shapiro, Fred]

technocrat (OED 4 Dec. 1932)

1932 Sydney Morning Herald 6 Feb. 12/8 (Newspapers.com)

We live to-day under the rule of super-craftsmen — economic technicians.  He may be the big banker financing the machine, its brain like Ford's that directs it, or the super-engineer who designs it.  In either case we call him a technocrat, and our new form of government a technocracy.

Fred Shapiro

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