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Any consideration of relationships between technology and ethics is likely at some point to encounter the concept of technocracy, as a proposal to incorporate scientific and engineering expertise into the political process.
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Liu, Y., Lan, L., Zhu, Q. (2021). Technocracy. In: Grunwald, A., Hillerbrand, R. (eds) Handbuch Technikethik. J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-04901-8_22
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