Hmm, their ideals remind me of the more archaic aspects of "scientific management", which was breaking production down into manageable tasks, and treating everything, including workers, as an input to be manipulated. It worked but had a limit. Push too hard and job satisfaction would plummet, along with productivity. The technocrat's view of everything as a technical problem with a technical solution is along the same thought path. That might work in a country of robots, but people have radically different needs, wants, and opinions on how things should be done. And government is about people more than anything. Not that I'm opposed to having engineers and whatnot in the government, they're educated people with a valuable set of skills. I just don't like the end ideal of technocracy.