The Triple Revolution

Drafted under the auspices of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, it was signed by an array of noted social activists, professors, and technologists who identified themselves as the Ad Hoc Committee on the Triple Revolution.

The chief initiator of the proposal was W. H. "Ping" Ferry, at that time a vice-president of CSDI, basing it in large part on the ideas of the futurist Robert Theobald.

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.

"[4]In his 2015 book Rise of the Robots,[2] Martin Ford claims The Triple Revolution's predictions of steady decline in future employment were not wrong, but rather premature.

He cites "Seven Deadly Trends" that began in the 1970s-1980s and by the mid-2010s appeared set to continue: According to Ford, the 1960s were part of what in retrospect seems like a golden age for labor in the United States, when productivity and wages rose together in near lockstep, and unemployment was low.