Comments on: He also enlisted in a movement called Technocracy https://www.isegoria.net/2023/10/he-also-enlisted-in-a-movement-called-technocracy/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Sun, 19 Apr 2026 13:20:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Isegoria https://www.isegoria.net/2023/10/he-also-enlisted-in-a-movement-called-technocracy/comment-page-1/#comment-3624824 Isegoria Tue, 17 Oct 2023 17:51:38 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=50500#comment-3624824 I haven’t read Beyond This Horizon, but it’s apparently the source of “the door dilated,” too.

I recently revisited his 1940 short story “The Roads Must Roll,” in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929–1964, which features a fictional social movement he calls Functionalism, in which one’s status and level of material reward in a society must and should depend on the functions one performs for that society.

]]> By: Neovictorian https://www.isegoria.net/2023/10/he-also-enlisted-in-a-movement-called-technocracy/comment-page-1/#comment-3624750 Neovictorian Tue, 17 Oct 2023 00:23:22 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=50500#comment-3624750 The Social Credit and Technocracy movements are especially interesting to me because of my reading of Heinlein. There were a lot of technocrats in the science fiction fandom of the 20s and 30s, and he wasn’t one of them, but in his first novel-length work, Beyond This Horizon, the economy is organized on Social Credit lines, and it’s technocratically run. (This is the “armed society is a polite society” book, by the way.)

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