The Post-industrial Prophets: Interpretations of Technology
- ISBN-10
- 0060903228
- ISBN-13
- 9780060903220
- Category
- Technology and civilization
- Pages
- 280
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1973
- Author
- William Kuhns
Description
... he has a more mathematically oriented American counterpart in the Rand Corporation's Delphi projection study summarized in Olaf Helmer's Social Technology . The Year 2000 , by Herman Kahn and Anthony J. Wiener , interprets the ...
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