Technocracy ick hör Dir trapsen

So even if this IT based society would IT-wise be manageable, it still smells a bit of technocracy: the whole Kama system is designed to pick the most competent experts for solving a given problem and those experts are then let loose on the problem. Right? No(t really).

First of all those experts don't rule. Nobody rules. Individuals make isolated decisions that will affect many other people and, most importantly, themselves by influencing their (long term!) social status. Thus the experts would be rather unwise to merely follow rational processes for finding the most efficient solution without regarding the public opinion of the problem.

Yet the decision makers would be more free to make decisions that are unpopular at the time because the long term outlook matters more in that process of decision making - one has to live a whole life with such decisions while today's politicians have to live 4 years with a decision at the very longest.

Then the experts are not necessarily ``engineers'' of one kind or another as you would expect in a technocracy. The skills that are required of the experts are determined in a separate process and those ``skills'' always include the highest moral standards and likely other ``soft'' skills you would not expect of your cursed technocrats.

Thorsten Roggendorf 2008-11-06