Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2024-09-11
Books mentioned on Selects: How Futurology Works | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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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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Future shock
Alvin Toffler's seminal work Future Shock explores the psychological and social distress experienced by individuals and societies subjected to too much change in too short a time.
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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