Wednesday 25 January 2023

Psychotechnic Improvements, Then Decline

"The Snows of Ganymede," V.

When the UN had psychotechnic advisors and administrators:

economic recovery;
world government;
withering nationalism;
education addressing individual and social needs;
population decline;
conservation;
rational (?) economics;
sane penology;
generally available psychiatry;
critical thinking.

Causes of breakdown and Humanist Revolution:

cultural resistance;
psychological resistance;
mass technological unemployment;
superdielectrics shifting military power from government to small groups.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Anderson came to either disbelieve in all these things or to be extremely skeptical of them being realistic.

Ad astra! Sean