Between two ages
America's role in the technetronic era
by Zbigniew Brzezinski · first published 1970
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…further, to concepts. It's here: https://www.amazon.com/What-Category-Theory-Giandomenico-Sic... I had confused in my mind -tectonic with a phrase from another book I admire: https://www.amazon.com/Between-Two-Ages-Americas-Technetroni.... I guess that's what I get for not double-checking; and you get a random book link :)
on “Linguistics Using Category Theory (2018)” ↗…this ever since. It's part of a clear detailed long-term vision and they've just been putting the finishing touches on it and everyone acts like it just happened all by itself. http://www.amazon.com/Between-Two-Ages-Americas-Technetronic... >"The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon…
on “Feds Warrantlessly Tracking Americans’ Credit Cards in Real Time” ↗…principal creative force: International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state. -Zbigniew Brzezinski, BETWEEN TWO AGES: America's Role in the Technetronic Era
on “TTIP Enters New and Dangerous Stage as Democracy Is Dismantled in Secret” ↗…maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities." https://www.amazon.com/Between-Two-Ages-Americas-Technetroni... Book - governments not to work for the people: http://trilateral.org/download/doc/crisis_of_democracy.pdf
on “Microsoft Contractors Are Listening to Some Skype Calls” ↗…maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.” ― Zbigniew Brzezinski, Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/162691-the-technotronic-era... In case you don't know who this person is, I suggest reviewing his career. He is, as Donald Rumsfeld…
on “Del.icio.us” ↗…and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities. (Zbigniew Brzezinski, Between Two Ages, 1971)
on “Why I Wrote PGP (1999)” ↗This same book was written half a century ago by another member of the US libertarian elite: Alvin Toffler's The Third Wave (1980). Which itself was a bad ripoff of Zbigniew Brzezinski's Between Two Ages (1970).
on “The World After Capital (2018)” ↗Yes. This was anticipated and salivated over by the likes of Zbigniew K. Brzezinski. https://www.amazon.com/Between-Two-Ages-Americas-Technetroni... https://archive.org/details/B-001-003-798 (for the pdf)
on “On my resignation as regulator of the Dutch intelligence and security services” ↗…really interested in the history and literature of the time period 1965-1980 or so including the hippie phenomenon, Watergate, disco, inflation, etc. Lately though I took a look at https://www.amazon.com/Between-Two-Ages-Americas-Technetroni... and a conference proceedings about Brzezinski's ideas that came out in the next few years. Partially I wanted to roll my eyes at times because my interests have moved on but…
on “Why Is Britain Poor?” ↗…of electronics involved in radio (circuits with say 10 vacuum tubes) and then television and computers. I like Brzezinski’s construct of the Technetronic age https://www.e-ir.info/2011/07/22/review-between-two-ages-ame... and feel the urge to periodize it into "lower", "middle" and "upper" technetronic even though we're way too close to it for that.
on “My Brain Periodises History” ↗