In 1919, American engineer Howard Scott formed the Technical Alliance, a group of engineers, scientists, and technicians based in New York. The Technical Alliance carried out an Energy Survey of North America, aimed at documenting the wastefulness of the capitalist system.^[1] The group advocated a more rational and productive society headed by technical experts, but the survey undertaken failed to have a significant impact. Although some waste was documented, the "prosperity and conservatism of the 1920s undermined the political orientation of the Technical Alliance", and it disbanded in the early 1920s.^[1][2]

Apart from Scott, other notable members of the Technical Alliance included:^{[citation needed]}

• Thorstein Veblen
• Stuart Chase
• Benton Mackaye
• Leland Olds
• Charles P. Steinmetz
• Richard C. Tolman

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b} Beverly H. Burris (1993). Technocracy at work State University of New York Press, p. 28.
2. ^ Howard P. Segal (2005). Technological Utopianism in American Culture Syracuse University Press, p. 121.