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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.
 
In 2012, the pandemic that the world had been anticipating for years finally hit....

Donella H. Meadows & Dennis L. Meadows & Jørgen Randers & William W. Behrens III (Club of Rome)

The Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind (1972)

The Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind (1972) by Donella H. Meadows & Dennis L. Meadows & Jørgen Randers & William W. Behrens III

In 1972, three scientists from MIT created a computer model that analyzed global resource consumption and production. Their results shocked the world...

Bertrand Russell

The Impact of Science on Society (1953)

The Impact of Science on Society (1953) by Bertrand Russell

In 1953, Russell published a seminal work, The Impact Of Science On Society. As is typical of Russell, the writing style is dull, at least in the beginning. The beginning of the book seems reasonable and humanitarian, and is intended to soften the reader up for the disgusting conclusi...

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

The Gulag Archipelago - 1918-1956 - Volumes I-VII (1973)

Wikipedia: The Gulag Archipelago

The Gulag Archipelago is a three-volume, non-fiction text written between 1958 and 1968 by Russian writer and historian Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. It was first published in 1973, followed by an English translation the following...

Eric D. Butler

The Labour-Socialist Road to Serfdom (1949)

A HANDBOOK OF ANTI-TOTALITARIANISM

The Labour-Socialist Road to Serfdom (1949) by Eric D. Butler

From The Introduction

This booklet is designed to outline briefly the manner in which the Australian Labor Party—it is really a Labour-Socialist Party— in its attempt to attain its socialisation objective, has consistently brought forward legisla...