Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2024-09-11
Books mentioned on Selects: How Futurology Works | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
Chuck Bryant discussed On Thermonuclear War by Herman Kahn and others, The Limits to Growth by Donella H. Meadows and others, and Ralph 124C 41+ by Hugo Gernsback. Josh Clark discussed The Year 2000; A Framework for Speculation on the Next Thirty-Three Years, by Herman Kahn and Anthony J. Wiener, With Contributions From Other Staff Members of the Hudson Institute. Introd. by Daniel Bell by Herman Kahn. Also mentioned: THE THERMONUCLEAR WAR by Herman Kahn, Future shock by Alvin Toffler, and Children of the Plague by Kat Hankinson.
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On Thermonuclear War
Discussed“he kind of was a bit of a celebrity at the time he wrote a book um in 1961 called on Thermonuclear War”
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THE THERMONUCLEAR WAR
Discussed“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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The Year 2000; A Framework for Speculation on the Next Thirty-Three Years, by Herman Kahn and Anthony J. Wiener, With Contributions From Other Staff Members of the Hudson Institute. Introd. by Daniel Bell
Discussed“and this book that he wrote called um the uh the year 2000 a framework for speculation on the next 33 years”
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The Limits to Growth
Discussed“one of the books that came out of the club of Rome uh in 1972 was called limits to growth by uh danella H Meadows Dennis Meadows Jurgen randers and William Barons at MIT”
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Future shock
Discussed“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
Discussed“But back in I think the 1910s, writing, yeah, he wrote a book called Ralph 124C 41+ which predicted everything in this!”
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