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Tag Archives: Alvin Toffler
No Escape from Our Techno-Feudal World
By Pepe Escobar Source: Global Research The political economy of the Digital Age remains virtually terra incognita. In Techno-Feudalism, published three months ago in France (no English translation yet), Cedric Durand, an economist at the Sorbonne, provides a crucial, global public service as … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Hackers, internet freedom, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Alvin Toffler, Ayn Rand, capitalism, Cedric Durand, Chinese credit system, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Futurism, George Keyworth, Internet, Progress and Freedom Foundation, Silicon Valley, society, surveillance capitalism, surveillance state, Techno-Feudalism, Technocracy, technology, the Digital Age
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Saturday Matinee: Future Shock
Future Shock: Orson Welles Narrates a 1972 Film About the Perils of Technological Change By Jonathan Crow Source: Open Culture The beginning of the 1972 documentary Future Shock, directed by Alex Grasshof, shows Orson Welles, bearded and chomping on a … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Economics, Film, Labor, Saturday Matinee, Science, society, Technology, Video, Work
Tagged Alex Grasshof, Alvin Toffler, economy, Future Shock, Futurism, Orson Welles, society, technology
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