Editing Technocracy movement (section)

====Computerization====

The term "[[computer]]" wasn't used much by Howard Scott, but when it was, he used it with great optimism. Scott said technocracy's C.A.S., energy certificates, and Dewey decimal system were a more paper-based way of tracking computation; the [[IBM]] computers were exactly the kind of devices a C.A.S. would want to deploy. Scott insisted that "one of the big troubles with all of this is that your computers is going to do away with your accountants and your engineers, and it is also going to do away with your executives, as well as the blue collar and the white collar, so more power to all of the computer control mechanisms."<ref name=":4">{{Cite book |last=Technocracy Inc. |url=https://archive.org/details/TheWordsAndWisdomOfHowardScott/TheWordsAndWisdomOfHowardScott-Volumes1-2-3/page/n1461/mode/2up?q=computer&view=theater |title=The Words and Wisdom of Howard Scott |language=English}}</ref>

A year after Scott's passing, Chile started [[Project Cybersyn]], a computerized system intended to track the economy. Philosophies of computerized government also popped up; see [[cyberocracy]]. Engineers are the central profession of technocracy's foundation, so claiming that they too will be replaced by automation is a big deal coming from a technocrat.{{fact|reason="Presumably this point has been made in a citable work discussing Technocracy, so include one here."|date=April 2025}} Over the years, software for [[computer-aided design]] and the 2022 revolution of [[large language model]]s brought hysteria that engineers and software developers would be replaced by [[artificial intelligence]].{{fact|reason="Citation needed for this, especially for the editorialized characterization of such concern as 'hysteria'."|date=April 2025}}