According to this chapter entitled "From Technocracy to Technopoly," a "technocracy is a society only controlled by a social custom and religious tradition and driven by the impulse to prevent." This writing basically states how 19th-century technical skills have cntinued to shape the rest of technological society to this day. It also demonstrates that technocracies and technopolies have completely erased our ongoing tradition throughout history in the world by creating new invention after invention, where we are now finding it difficult to keep up. "Alfred North Whitehead summed it up best when he remarked that the greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the idea of invention itself."