In Poul Anderson's Genesis, there is a Paleotechnic Era.
In Anderson's first, Psychotechnic, future history, there are:
the Psychotechnic Institute;
a volume inappropriately entitled The Psychotechnic League;
a three-volume complete edition inappropriately entitled The Complete Psychotechnic League.
In Anderson's second future history, the History of Technic Civilization, there are:
the Polesotechnic League (whose members included Nicholas van Rijn);
later folk tales of "Polesotechnarch Van Rijn" ("The Plague of Masters," p. 45) (For full reference, see here);
a theory of "Psychotechnocracy." (op. cit., p. 39)
The Psychotechnic Institute tried to apply scientific knowledge to social and psychological problems. I would expect "Psychotechnocrats" to do the same, not to try to fit people into a perfect scheme, which is what Dominic Flandry accuses them of doing.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
But I agree with Flandry! The scientific mind is simply not well suited for something as messy and chaotic as politics. Which is why I strongly suspect these theories about "psychotechnocracy" soon disappeared, except in the debased form seen with
Biocontrol on Unan Besar.
Sean
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