By Wendy Williamson
WendyWilliamson.com
October 15, 2026
"We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us." - Marshall McLuhan
The tool being built today has a name: Pax Silica. The belief behind it is older. It is the faith that experts can manage what markets and democracies cannot. It is called technocracy.
The movement emerged after the First World War, when wartime mobilization showed how extensively governments could coordinate production.