I think one word you might be looking for is "technocracy" [0] Although the Wikipedia definition focuses on the appointment of experts to political power, ther

I think one word you might be looking for is "technocracy" [0] Although the Wikipedia definition focuses on the appointment of experts to political power, there is an attendant dehumanisation where technical and legal approaches to everything replace human values. Another important term might be "instrumental reason" [1]. This goes beyond simple quantitative utilitarianism to declare all areas of human discourse and relations as quantifiable, measurable and logically decidable. My personal opinion is that way beyond Neil Postman's "Technopoly" we actually have a fully fledged new religion in which technological values have not _replaced_ ethical discourse, they are the new ethical discourse. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy [1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rationality-instrumental/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rationality-instrumental/