what’s in a name?

i was looking for a cool new name for a design business i had to create for my graphic design print media class. it was luftewaffe designs then i found out not only is it german for  “airforce” but more importantly the “nazi airforce” so i quickly  nixed that name. (i mean if you strip the word of its bad connontations its a pretty cool name just say it with me Luftwaffe Designs. see? it just flows…) anyway i was searching and searching for a new name when i just happen to hear that word on CNN.  this word was sharp, it had oomph and it had this…this power. i had it!!  TECHNOCRAT.  it was every thing i dreamed of and more. Then i looked up the definition.  this is what i got:

Technocracy : A form of government in which scientists and technical experts are in control; “technocracy is described as that society in which those who govern justify themselves by appeal to technical experts who justify themselves by appeal to scientific forms of knowledge”. …
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocrat_(derogatory)

 

Technocracy (“techno” from the Greek tekhne for skill, “cracy” from the Greek kratos for “power”) may refer to: * Technocracy (bureaucratic), a governmental or organizational system where decision makers are selected based upon how highly skilled and qualified they are, rather than how much …
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocrat

 

Technocrat is a superhero in the DC Comics and a former member of the Outsiders. His first appearance was in Outsiders Alpha v2, #1 (November 1993). written by Mike W. Barr and drawn by Paul Pelletier.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocrat_(comics)

 

Someone who believes that engineers should manage society.
www.udmercy.edu/faculty_pages/staudenmaier_sj/ethics/glossary.html

 

New type of bureaucrat; intensely trained in engineering or economics and devoted to the power of national planning; came to fore in offices of governments following World War II. (p. 875)
occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/stearns_awl/medialib/glossary/gloss_T.html

of course i prefer definition number 3 about to superhero but that is neither here nor there.  it struck me how odd it was that some people think that engineers and scientisits  should manage society.  i think that they do for the most part. if not for scientists and engineers there would not be any developements made at all. we as a world would be stuck in the dark ages. america wouldn’t be america. and all that jazz.   what do you think? Should scientists and engineers be in total control of society? how would that be good or bad?

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~ by technokratic on January 9, 2009.