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To answer this question one must first understand that every politico-economic ideology, like every religious belief, proclaims that it has the one true doctrine and that all others are entirely different or at opposite ends. In most instances individuals join in ....

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.... what they have in common. Technocracy partakes one single element in that it is dependent on the voluntary association of individuals acting upon certain ideas upon which they are in agreement. Comparatively it differs from all other social movements since its common ideas are not the result of philosophic agreement. Technocracy does in fact in theory need science and technology to be based upon, but it is this “science and technology” that the populace overlooks and assumes it as engineered technology. Ideas of engineering are in fact in our bones and part of human nature and experience (Petroski preface). This statement by Petroski is ....