If the edifice of industrial civilization does not eventually crumble as a result of a determined resistance within its very walls, it seems certain to crumble of its own accumulated excesses and instabilities within not more than a few decades, perhaps sooner, after which there may be space for alternative societies to arise.
Predictor: Sale, Kirkpatrick
Prediction, in context:In his 1995 book “Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution,” Kirkpatrick Sale writes: ”If the edifice of industrial civilization does not eventually crumble as a result of a determined resistance within its very walls, it seems certain to crumble of its own accumulated excesses and instabilities within not more than a few decades, perhaps sooner, after which there may be space for alternative societies to arise.”
Biography:Kirkpatrick Sale, an author and journalist, wrote a book titled “Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution” that made him a leader of the neo-Luddites of the 1990s. “Luddites” generally believe that technological advances are an endangerment to society. (Author/Editor/Journalist.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Community/Culture
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution
Title, headline, chapter name: Lessons from the Luddites
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
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