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Rockefeller Foundation

Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development (2010)

Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development (2010) by Rockefeller Foundation

Extract:

LOCK STEP – A world of tighter top-down government control and more authoritarian leadership, with limited innovation and growing citizen pushback.
 
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