Bush was a wise man, Truman forgot that government power can be fickle.

https://thetech.com/2024/07/11/anniversary-vannevar-bush-pas...

the “unchecked committee of technocratic experts appeared to be his preferred agency governance form.” refers both to his utterances illustrated in his only biography to date, and particularly to the would-be May-Johnson governance structure he promoted.

Today we see the debate in full swing with discussion of technocratic elitism, (particularly this year more than last when I wrote the piece).

I wrestle with the pitfalls & perceived benefits a technocratic elite sans much representative democratic oversight. But make no mistake, a ‘Vannevarian’ world would appear very different to the current one we prefer to think we live in. The closest example in pop culture to what I imagine is the Fallout franchise’s Vault governance & managed society.

William B. Bonvillian taught me the bit I know about the topic :)

That’s great to hear you sometimes give talks to course 3 students, as maybe some of them will go on to study lattices like: https://www.sf-uap.com/materials-science , for which study under what governance structure we may not know.

All the best.