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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 w...

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 consumpti...

R N Gardner

The Hard Road to The New World Order (1974)

Published in CFR Magazine Foreign Affairs, April 1974

Foreign Affairs, April 1974 - The Hard Road to The New World Order (1974) by R N Gardner

The quest for a world structure that secures peace, advances human rights and provides the conditions for economic progress—for what is loosely called world order—has never seemed...