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Chapter 1: The Future Is What It Used To Be
Son of the Empire: Richard Barbrook as a Cub Scout of America, Boston, Massachusetts, USA,...
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Chapter 2: The American Century
Here to Serve You: Robbie the Robot and Altaira from the 1956 movie Forbidden Planet. Artwork by...
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Chapter 3: Cold War Computing
Moonstruck: Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, Astronaut John Glenn and the Aurora space shuttle from the...
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Chapter 4: The Human Machine
The Formula: Norbert Wiener lecturing in the 1950s at MIT, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Artwork by...
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Chapter 5: Cybernetic Supremacy
Working the System: Computer operator and IBM System/360 mainframe, 1964. Artwork by Alex Veness for...
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Chapter 6: The Global Village
The Seer: Marshall McLuhan on The Dick Cavett Show, ABC television, USA, 1970. Artwork by Alex Veness...
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Chapter 7: The Cold War Left
Upgraded: a Lockheed Constellation flying over New York, 1950. Artwork by Alex Veness for...
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Chapter 8: The Chosen Few
Jazz Goes to College: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and a cocktail party in 1950s America. Artwork by Alex...
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Chapter 9: Free Workers In The Affluent Society
Pin the Cookie on the Smile: a housewife and a 1961 Tappen cooker. Artwork by Alex Veness for...
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Chapter 10: The Prophets Of Post-Industrialism
A Conscious Organisation of Human Cooperation: Viktor Glushkov and colleagues from the Ukrainian...
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Chapter 11: The American Road To The Global Village
Think Tank: the Beinecke Library at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA and a...
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Chapter 12: The Leader Of The Free World
This is Today: Mark Rothko and his 1951 painting Untitled (Violet, Black, Orange, Yellow on White and...
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Chapter 13: The Great Game
Your Move: Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer at the 1972 World Chess Championships,...
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Chapter 14: The American Invasion Of Vietnam
Bad Moon Rising: A Vietnamese People's Militia member and her US Air Force prisoner in...
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Chapter 15: Those Who Forget The Future Are Condemned To Repeat It
Give It Up: dancers at the KCC sound system, Notting Hill Carnival, London, England, 1999. Artwork by...
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Chapter 16: References
Material Labour: Richard Barbrook at Alex Veness’ studio, London, England, 2006 and...
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