The Future of the FutureWritten in 1969, this provides an evaluation of global resources and the projection of population pressure beyond the limits of the ecosystem unless we change our priorities and adjust to global planning for managing our development. |
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The Industrial Revolution | 44 |
The Dimensions of Change | 63 |
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already animal areas aspects atomic automated become biological biosphere Buckminster Fuller capacity CARBON DIOXIDE centers century communication complex concept conscious continental shelves cultural cycles Daniel Bell Dennis Gabor earth earth's atmosphere ecological economic energy environ Erich Jantsch exponential growth extended forecasting forms fossil fuels fuels function future global growth HYDROSPHERE increased individual industrial Industrial Revolution institutions John McHale large-scale less living machine major man's material means ment metals million modes natural nomic nuclear ocean operation ORBIT organic overall past patterns percent period physical planetary planetary society plants political population possible potential prediction present problems production range recent relation relatively require revolution Robert Jungk role satellite scale scientific sense social space specific survival symbolic tion tons traditional trend types United utopian various York