“The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen 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. ”
“The technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason.”
SOURCE: BETWEEN TWO AGES America’s Role in the Technetronic Era Zbigniew Brzezinski THE VIKING PRESS / NEW YORK Copyright © 1970 by Zbigniew Brzezinski All rights reserved First published in 1970 by The Viking Press, Inc. 625 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022 Published simultaneously in Canada by The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited ISBN 670160415 Library of Congress catalog card number: 76104162 Printed in U.S.Aby H. Wolff Book Mfg. Co. Prepared under the auspices of the Research Institute on Communist Affairs, Columbia University
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