Technocracy had come to dominate both the institutional and the socioeconomic cycles. Technocracy is a simple concept. It believes that problems should be solved through knowledge and that problem solving of all sorts is technical in nature. Technology is not just a machine but a mode of approaching a problem. A civil servant in Washington working on health care is using a rational, methodical, and therefore technical approach to a problem, in the same sense that someone designing a microchip is doing.
