Howard Scott?

Enemy Of The Bourgeoisie

It's interesting, perhaps revealing that Howard Scott's own preferred epithet was Enemy Of The Bourgeoisie. William Sheridan casts doubt as to humankind's willingness to submit to some bureaucrat or bureaucracy's vison of efficient living. It doesn't sound democratic. As a matter of fact it sounds like Technates could only be established through force and maintained through a dictatorship:

Scott's plan was an engineering masterpiece as well as a paragon of responsible environmental management. But it was not congenial to business and political elites, and it was advanced far beyond what the average mentality could comprehend or accept. Scott advocated that people adapt to the requirements of the machine, but most people couldn't get too enthusiastic about that prospect. His plan was first publicized over 60 years ago, but the public seems no more ready to adopt anything like that now than they were then.

But there is an even deeper problem with Scott's plan than a lack of public enthusiasm. As Marshall McLuhan has only recently shown us [Laws of Media], technology has four types of effects on us, and the most troubling of these is the Reversal Effect. What the Reversal Effect shows, is that even a worthwhile innovation (like the concept of efficiency) can be over-used, with the result that the original benefits are eventually offset by accumulating detriments. To his close collaborators, Scott conceded that the implementation of his plan would amount to "a dictatorship of science". Science however, cannot provide the social or personal values upon which either social solidarity or personal fulfillment depend, yet without these attributes no culture can survive.