> Some would say that scientists should be the politicians, and that a government based on science will be more beneficial than anything we've ever had. Star Tr

> Some would say that scientists should be the politicians, and that a government based on science will be more beneficial than anything we've ever had. Star Trek did it. Why can't we? Some would note that Star Trek is fiction (and rather didactic, poorly-written fiction at that, although an enjoyable-enough diversion on its own), and that the only technocracies the world has ever seen (Soviet Russia, Maoist China) have been hellholes of murder, starvation, human misery and repression.