Robert Jungk - The big machine (1969)
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The story of the 'atom-smasher'- the European Organization for Nuclear Research and the Scientists who run it.
Dennis M. Bushnell - The Future of Undersea Warfare: The Shape of Things to Come (2001)
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Since the 1950s, when more than 50 percent of the nation's work force became engaged in some type of "information-intensive," activity, the United States (and the world) have been in the midst of an unprecedented Technological Revolution, currently centered around Information, Biological, and Nanoscale technologies. These technologies are all pushing the frontiers of the miniscule in a synergistic "feeding frenzy" among each other, and are causing tremendous changes in all areas of human endeavor. One of these areas is warfare. The character of these new technologies is altering both the context of potential conflicts and the diversity, effectiveness, survivability, and affordability of the techniques and material applicable to waging war.
John B. Calhoun - Population Density and Social Pathology (1962)
When a population of laboratory rats is allowed to increase in a confined space, the rats develop acutely abnormal patterns of behavior that can even lead to the extinction of the population.
Dennis M. Bushnell - Where Is It All Going (2016)
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Society now faces many major, even existential, issues that threaten our future. At the same time that accelerating changes are converging to create enormous potential problems, prospective synergistic solution spaces are emerging that offer strategies—and hope— for the human future.
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