The Triple Revolution
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"The Triple Revolution" was an open memorandum sent to US President Lyndon B. Johnson and other government figures on March 22, 1964. It was signed by an array of social activists, professors, and technologists who identified themselves as the Ad Hoc Committee on the Triple Revolution.
[edit] Overview
The statement identified three revolutions underway in the world: the cybernation revolution of increasing automation; the weaponry revolution of mutually assured destruction; and the human rights revolution. It discussed primarily the cybernation revolution. The committee claimed that machines would continue to reduce the number of manual laborers needed, while increasing the skill needed to work, thereby producing greater unemployment. It proposed that the government should ease this transformation through large-scale public works, low-cost housing, public transit, electrical power development, income redistribution, union representation for the unemployed, and government restraint on technology deployment.
[edit] Signatories
- Todd Gitlin
- Roger Hagan (journalist)
- Michael Harrington
- Tom Hayden
- Ralph L. Helstein (union leader)
- Frances W. Herring (professor of governmental studies)
- Gerard Piel
- Michael D. Reagan
- Ben B. Siligman
- Robert Theobald
- William Worthy (journalist)
- Alice Mary Hilton (technologist)
- Maxwell Geismar (author)
- Philip Green (professor of political science)
- H. Stuart Hughs (professor of history)
- Linus Pauling
- John William Ward
- Hugh B. Hester
- Gerald W. Johnson (journalist)
- Irving F. Laucks (industrialist)
- Gunner Myrdal (economist)
- A. J. Muste (activist)
- Louis Fein (computer consultant)
- Stewart Meacham (activist)
- Everett C. Hughes (professor of sociology)
- Robert Heilbroner
- Irving Howe
- Bayard Rustin
- Norman Thomas
- Dwight Macdonald
- Carl F. Stover (academic)
- Donald G. Agger (attorney)
- Donald B. Armstrong (physician)
- James Boggs
- W. H. Ferry (activist)
