Founding Fathers envisioned Scientific Democracy

Founding Fathers of the USA

The Founding Fathers of the United States were interested in the application of Science to the betterment of government.

http://minst.org/library_science_and_founding_fathers.html

http://www.ucsusa.org/center-for-science-and-democracy/science-and-democracy-in-the-US-history.html

Review of Cohen's Science and the Founding Fathers: Science in the Political Thought of Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, and Madison.

1930s: Technocracy

Physics as a Way of Thinking
https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/1811/72567/OSLJ_V2N3_0241.pdf

Technocracy movement

Now

The concept of Scientific Democracy is in response to other options that are less desirable. The United States of America has exhibited examples of inverted totalitarianism and is now evolving towards Guided Democracy [wnyc.org, aired Jan 13, 2017].
Scientific Democracy is an alternative to the current approach and which enables democracy for citizens.