An Unofficial 'The Rest Is History' Reading List
21. The History of the Future
February 08, 2021
Description
Books Referenced
Author: Samuel Madden
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Mentioned as a 1733 prediction of the future by an Anglican clergyman who envisioned ideological conflict between Jesuits and Deists
Author: Aldous Huxley
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Referenced as Aldous Huxley's vision of the future, discussed in context of morality and technology's effect on behavior
Author: George Orwell
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Mentioned as an influential mid-20th century vision of the future about totalitarianism and political ideology
Author: General Sir John Hackett
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Discussed as a book about nuclear apocalypse where the Russians drop a nuclear bomb on Birmingham
Author: William Gibson
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Referenced in discussion of visions of the future involving computers and virtual worlds
Author: Cormac McCarthy
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Mentioned as an example of dystopian vision of living in an apocalyptic wasteland
Author: Herodotus
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Referenced as Herodotus's great work describing how Greeks consulted oracles, including the story of Croesus
Author: Oswald Spengler
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Discussed as early 20th century German writer's theory about the rise and fall of civilizations and the doom of Western civilization
Author: Samuel Huntington
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Mentioned as one of the great post-Cold War prophetic books from the 1990s about civilizational conflict
Author: Francis Fukuyama
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Mentioned alongside Clash of Civilizations as one of the two great post-Cold War prophetic books