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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 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 Coming of Post-Industrial Society'' (Basic Books, 2008), p. 463.</ref>
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