The 1930s Technocrats were the voice of reason behind the machines; now the machine (AI) is expressing judgement, agreement, and consent, "as though the public dispute it replaces had already occurred within the circuitry itself." Trump is assembling the North American Technate, which others have failed to establish over the last 100 years. ? Patrick Wood, Editor.

There are periods in which societies attempt to recover order not through passion or ideology, but through calculation. The Technocracy Movement of the early twentieth century arose during one such period. It promised that, if only production and administration were entrusted to technical expertise rather than partisan struggle, waste and instability might give way to something more disciplined and rational.1

That ambition never achieved the political authority its advocates imagined, yet the habit of thinking in such terms – of translating society into systems, flows, and operational diagrams – proved more enduring than the movement itself.

Among the more striking relics of that imagination is the 1940 "Technate of America'" map, which gathers North America, Greenland, parts of the Caribbean, and the northern edge of South America into a single industrial domain governed not by borders, but by resource geography and infrastructure. It does not read like a fantasy of conquest so much as a schematic drawing: a continent rendered as a network.2