In 1933, a new movement named Technocracy was founded in the US. Its members advocate that engineers should run a country, and that energy certificates should replace pay packets.

Technocracy emphasizes "hard" quantitative and econometric skills, like programming and budgeting methodologies; in contrast, a cyberocracy may bring a new emphasis on "soft" symbolic, cultural, and psychological dimensions of policymaking and public opinion.

Bureaucrats command offices and channels. Technocrats command scientific expertise and analytical skills.

Technocracy got public attention in the fall of 1932, when the Depression was near its most severe point. During Depression and the economic and political turmoil, the ostensible beginning of technocracy could hardly have been less noticeable.

There are times when technocracy is seen as a virtue because it is supposedly subordinated to a President with the greatest democratic mandate.

There was a time when people worried that the information revolution and that the relentless advance of technology and technocracy might mean that their lives would be run by heartless computers, and government would be reduced to a "Hell of Administrative Boredom." - Lowi.