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This article was deeply disappointing. Anything about the people, the science fiction that struggled with these ideas? Mention of Player Piano?

Anything about Robert McNamara? About this stuff actually being tried? About the actual failures that actually happened? The "whiz kids?"

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I was thinking of Player Piano, which might be the best of Vonnegut's novels, as I thought over this article. Vonnegut said that all of the stories we believe are lies, because we are not smart enough to know the truth. Where do you think Vonnegut would place the blame, on some story, on the species, on the technology, or on the universe? Or how about the view that technology is a bottle full of miracles, but when one reaches in the bottle and tries to pull out a miracle, one's fist is always too big to pass through the bottle's neck?

The Wikipedia article is more comprehensive https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement

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