There’s some interesting parallels between the Technocracy movement of the 1930s and 40s, and a contemporary movement known as Effective Altruism.

Both ideologies promise a techno-utopia, if only we’d give the world to its believers.

And both share some lineage— Joshua Norman Haldeman, 1940s director of Technocracy Inc, is the grandfather of Effective Altruism’s most powerful evangelist, Elon Musk.

What a gnarly little coincidence.