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{{quote|There can be no gainsaying of the fact that a great revolution is taking place in the world today. In a sense it is a triple revolution: that is, a technological revolution, with the impact of automation and cybernation; then there is a revolution in weaponry, with the emergence of atomic and nuclear weapons of warfare; then there is a human rights revolution, with the freedom explosion that is taking place all over the world. Yes, we do live in a period where changes are taking place. And there is still the voice crying through the vista of time saying, "Behold, I make all things new; former things are passed away."|Martin Luther King, Jr.|Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution}}
In [[Harlan Ellison]]'s 1967 anthology ''[[Dangerous Visions]]'', [[Philip José Farmer]]'s story "[[Riders of the Purple Wage]]" uses the Triple Revolution document as the premise of a future society, in which the "purple wage" of the title is a [[guaranteed income]] dole on which most of the population lives. At the 1968 [[World Science Fiction Convention]] in San Francisco, Farmer delivered a lengthy Guest of Honor speech in which he called for the founding of a grassroots activist organization called REAP which would work for implementation of the Ad Hoc Committee's recommendations.
Looking back at the proposal at a later date, [[Daniel Bell]] wrote: "the cybernetic revolution quickly proved to be illusory. There were no spectacular jumps in productivity. <...> Cybernation had proved to be one more instance of the penchant for overdramatizing a momentary innovation and blowing it up far out of proportion to its actuality. <...> The image of a completely automated production economy—with an endless capacity to turn out goods—was simply a social-science fiction of the early 1960s. Paradoxically, the vision of Utopia was suddenly replaced by the spectre of Doomsday. In place of the early-sixties theme of endless plenty, the picture by the end of the decade was one of a fragile planet of limited resources whose finite stocks were being rapidly depleted, and whose wastes from soaring industrial production were polluting the air and waters."<ref>Bell, Daniel. The
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