Technocracy With Anton Cebalo

About this episode

The episode discusses the historical context and modern implications of the technocracy movement with guest Anton Cebalo.

Technocracy was a 1930s movement that wanted to replace elected governments with engineers and scientists running society through rationality and systems. What does it mean today in our world of algorithms and Big Tech? Anton Cebalo is a writer and historian. He has been published by Noema, The Guardian, The Brooklyn Rail, and Palladium. Anton's substack - https://novum.substack.com/ Welcome to the Technocracy article - https://donotresearch.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-technocracy Anton's website - https://www.antoncebalo.com/ Support my work - https://www.thetransformationofvalue.com/support

People in this episode

Host: Cody Ellingham

Guest: Anton Cebalo

Topics covered

• technocracy
• Big Tech
• algorithms
• society
• rationality
• engineering
• history

Keywords

• technocracy
• Big Tech
• algorithms
• society
• engineering
• history
• rationality

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Noema, The Guardian, The Brooklyn Rail, Palladium, Technocracy, Novum, Do Not Research, The Transformation of Value

Places: 1930s

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