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It posited the idea that America and Western capitalism could overcome any future problems through technological ingenuity, sparking controversy within academia and the wider public.
And this book that he wrote called The Year 2000, a framework for speculation on the next 33 years.
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Episode: Selects: How Futurology Works
It posited the idea that America and Western capitalism could overcome any future problems through technological ingenuity, sparking controversy within academia and the wider public.
And this book that he wrote called The Year 2000, a framework for speculation on the next 33 years.
It basically established this outlook that America and capitalism could do anything thanks to basically technological inventiveness.
There was a list in that book. 100 technical innovations, very likely in the last third of the 20th century.