Scholarly analysis explicitly describes Nineteen Eighty-Four as a “technocratic dystopia,” as a counterpoint to H.G. Wells' concept of benevolent scientific planners. Wells directly referenced “Technocracy” in The Shape of Things to Come, describing it as an attempt to restate economics on a physical-energy basis and imagining scientific elites governing a rationally ordered world, a vision very close to technocratic ideology. Orwell said that Wells “confused mechanical progress with justice, liberty, and common decency."
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Patrick Wood is a leading and critical expert on Sustainable Development, Green Economy, Agenda 21, 2030 Agenda and historic Technocracy. He is the author of Technocracy Rising: The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation (2015) and co-author of Trilaterals Over Washington, Volumes I and II (1978-1980) with the late Antony C. Sutton.
