Neo-technocracy
The technocratic ambition, to run society by measurement and engineering rather than argument, pursued through infrastructure that is privately built but publicly depended on, by people whose authority comes from what they build rather than from office or expertise.
ConceptSources & confidence: Qualified confidence
Checked 19 October 2026 · AI-assisted review
Definition as given in the essay's dictionary entry.
- Neo-Technocracy, repository draft
The definition and its scope, checked against the local MDX; the post is unpublished.
What this check doesn’t establish
- Coined in an unpublished essay. The word has been used loosely elsewhere, and Esmark's New Technocracy means something different; this record is scoped to the essay's usage.
- No external scheme holds the term in this sense, so no exactMatch is given.
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Coined in the essay to describe the present wave: the same aspiration as earlier technocracy, exercised through ownership of infrastructure such as data centres, satellite networks and data platforms, on both sides of a dissolving border between state and market.
The essay holds that it is not a left or right project, and defines it explicitly so that it can be argued with.
In the essays
- Neo-Technocracy: Same Dream, Bigger Budget
Read the essay
People
- Liam Wilkinson
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Record history
Catalogue source: knowledge/concepts/neo-technocracy.md
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