Herman Kahn - What will life be like in the year 2000? (1973)

Introduction

Would you like to know how the majority of Americans like their sex? Or what the yearly per capita income for the average Indian peasant is? Or when, if ever, the world’s energy supply will reach a critical low? Or why Japan is destined to exercise hegemony over the eastern half of the globe in the decades to come?

If so, Herman Kahn is the man to talk to. He could provide you, not only with the factual data to support his answers, but, if you so wished, could even interrelate all of those seemingly disparate questions into one, sweeping, meaningful projection — possibly the survival potential for the Judeo-Christian ethic in Western Europe for the next thirty years.

 

 

 

 

 

Jacques Attali - A huge financial crisis is looming (April, 2023)

Intro

A huge fnancial crisis is looming. Unless we act quickly, it will strike, probably in the summer of 2023. And if, through general procrastination, it is postponed, it will only be more severe later. We still have everything we need to really overcome it, provided we understand that our entire development model is at stake.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John B. Calhoun - Death Squared The Explosive Growth and Demise of a Mouse Population (1973)

 

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John Calhoun’s colony was a mouse utopia—a giant pen with everything a mouse could ever desire: plenty of food and water, a perfect climate, and reams of paper to make cozy nests. But the thing is, this wasn’t the first rodent heaven that Calhoun built. And by this point, he knew not to expect a happy ending. Because he also knew just how quickly mouse heaven can deteriorate into mouse hell.

John B. Calhoun's other study 'Preliminary Rat Study' was Funded by Rockefeller Foundation.