- The Triple Revolution
"The Triple Revolution" was an open memorandum sent to U.S. President
Lyndon B. Johnson and other government figures onMarch 22 ,1964 . It was signed by an array ofsocial activist s,professor s, and technologists who identified themselves as the Ad Hoc Committee on the Triple Revolution.Overview
The statement identified three
revolution s underway in the world: the "cybernation revolution" of increasingautomation ; the "weaponry revolution" ofmutually assured destruction ; and the "human rights revolution". It discussed primarily the cybernation revolution. The committee claimed that machines would continue to reduce the number ofmanual labor ers needed, while increasing the skill needed to work, thereby producing greaterunemployment . It proposed that the government should ease this transformation through large-scalepublic works , low-costhousing ,public transit , electrical power development,income redistribution , union representation for the unemployed, and government restraint on technology deployment. InHarlan Ellison 's1967 anthology "Dangerous Visions ",Philip José Farmer 's story "Riders of the Purple Wage " examines the Triple Revolution document as it may someday apply to future society.ignatories
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Todd Gitlin
*Roger Hagan (journalist)
*Michael Harrington
*Tom Hayden
*Ralph L. Helstein (union leader)
*Frances W. Herring (professor of governmental studies)
*Gerard Piel
*Michael D. Reagan
*Ben B. Siligman
*Robert Theobald
*William Worthy (journalist)
*Alice Mary Hilton (technologist)
*Maxwell Geismar (author)
*Philip Green (professor of political science)
*H. Stuart Hughs (professor of history)
*Linus Pauling
*John William Ward
*Hugh B. Hester
*Gerald W. Johnson (journalist)
*Irving F. Laucks (industrialist)
*Gunner Myrdal (economist)
*A. J. Muste (activist)
*Louis Fein (computer consultant)
*Stewart Meacham (activist)
*Everett C. Hughes (professor of sociology)
*Robert Heilbroner
*Irving Howe
*Bayard Rustin
*Norman Thomas
*Dwight Macdonald
*Carl F. Stover (academic)
*Donald G. Agger (attorney)
*Donald B. Armstrong (physician)
*James Boggs
*W. H. Ferry (activist)Bibliography
*Perrucci, Robert, and Pilisuk, Marc [editors] , "The Triple Revolution: social problems in depth", Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1968.
External links
* [http://www.educationanddemocracy.org/FSCfiles/C_CC2a_TripleRevolution.htm Text of the Triple Revolution statement]
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