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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....

Ben Williams

Central Government (1991)

Central Government (1991) by Ben Williams

Central Government is typified by Babylon. Babylonian type World Empires, based upon the concept of Central Government, are liberally strewn throughout the records of world history. Today, the epitome of Central Government is usually thought to be the Communist government of the Soviet Union. But, in all...

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...

James Guthrie

Our Sham Democracy Or The Majority Vote Racket (1946,1977)

Our Sham Democracy Or The Majority Vote Racket (1946) by James Guthrie

INTRODUCTION TO 1977 EDITION
 
All Truth is eternal. Although first published over thirty years ago, Jame Guthrie's book on the truths concerning the relationship of the individual to government is more appropriate than ever. Warnings concerning the shape of things to...