Books Mentioned in This Episode

Podcast: Stuff You Should Know

Episode: Selects: How Futurology Works | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW

Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.

THE THERMONUCLEAR WAR Cover

THE THERMONUCLEAR WAR

by Herman Kahn

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"He wrote a book in 1961 called On Thermonuclear War, and then went on to form the Hudson Institute, where he basically was like, we are a group that is going to forecast the future."
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Future shock

by Alvin Toffler

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"The one that I ran across in this article that I had heard of but didn't know anything about is Alvin Toffler's Future Shock. I remember that; I think, did you read it?"
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Children of the Plague

by Kat Hankinson

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"But back in I think the 1910s, writing, yeah, he wrote a book called Ralph 124C 41+ which predicted everything in this!"