Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era
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"Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era" is a 1970 geopolitical and futurist analysis in which Zbigniew Brzezinski explores how emerging technologies and global interdependence would transform politics, society, and U.S. power.
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| Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era canonical | 1 |
| Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era Context triple: [Zbigniew Brzezinski, notableWork, Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era]
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A.
Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
"Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity" is a historical and economic analysis that examines how technological advances have shaped inequality, political power, and shared prosperity over the past millennium.
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B.
America at Century’s End
"America at Century’s End" is a work by James R. Schlesinger that analyzes the United States’ strategic, political, and economic challenges as it approached the close of the twentieth century.
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The Age of Spiritual Machines
The Age of Spiritual Machines is a futurist book by Ray Kurzweil that predicts the evolution of artificial intelligence and its profound impact on human society and consciousness.
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D.
The Future of Ideas
The Future of Ideas is a book by legal scholar Lawrence Lessig that examines how excessive intellectual property regulation threatens innovation, creativity, and the openness of the digital commons.
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American Power and the New Mandarins
American Power and the New Mandarins is a 1969 collection of political essays by Noam Chomsky that sharply criticizes U.S. foreign policy and intellectual complicity in the Vietnam War.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era Target entity description: "Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era" is a 1970 geopolitical and futurist analysis in which Zbigniew Brzezinski explores how emerging technologies and global interdependence would transform politics, society, and U.S. power.
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A.
Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
"Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity" is a historical and economic analysis that examines how technological advances have shaped inequality, political power, and shared prosperity over the past millennium.
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B.
America at Century’s End
"America at Century’s End" is a work by James R. Schlesinger that analyzes the United States’ strategic, political, and economic challenges as it approached the close of the twentieth century.
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C.
The Age of Spiritual Machines
The Age of Spiritual Machines is a futurist book by Ray Kurzweil that predicts the evolution of artificial intelligence and its profound impact on human society and consciousness.
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D.
The Future of Ideas
The Future of Ideas is a book by legal scholar Lawrence Lessig that examines how excessive intellectual property regulation threatens innovation, creativity, and the openness of the digital commons.
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E.
American Power and the New Mandarins
American Power and the New Mandarins is a 1969 collection of political essays by Noam Chomsky that sharply criticizes U.S. foreign policy and intellectual complicity in the Vietnam War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
book
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futurist analysis ⓘ geopolitical analysis ⓘ non-fiction book ⓘ |
| analyzes |
relationship between technology and social control
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role of information and communication technologies in governance ⓘ shift from industrial to post-industrial society ⓘ |
| author | Zbigniew Brzezinski ⓘ |
| context | late 1960s and early 1970s global politics ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| discusses |
United States–Soviet Union rivalry
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decline of traditional nation-state sovereignty ⓘ emergence of a more interdependent world system ⓘ potential for new forms of social and political participation ⓘ role of elites in a technologically advanced society ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
future of global political order
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impact of emerging technologies on politics ⓘ transformation of U.S. power ⓘ |
| genre |
futurology
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geopolitics ⓘ political science ⓘ |
| historicalPeriodDiscussed | Cold War ⓘ |
| influenced |
debates on U.S. grand strategy
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discourse on globalization and interdependence ⓘ later discussions of information age politics ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Cold War geopolitics
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United States foreign policy ⓘ global interdependence ⓘ technetronic society ⓘ technological change ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early use of the term "technetronic" to describe a new stage of society
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linking technological innovation to changes in global power structures ⓘ |
| pageCount | ~300 ⓘ |
| partOf | Brzezinski's broader work on global strategy ⓘ |
| proposesConcept | technetronic era ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1970 ⓘ |
| publisher |
The Viking Press
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surface form:
Viking Press
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| relatedWorkByAuthor | The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
general educated readership interested in future studies
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policy makers ⓘ scholars of international relations ⓘ |
| timeOfAuthorship | late 1960s ⓘ |
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Subject: Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era Description of subject: "Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era" is a 1970 geopolitical and futurist analysis in which Zbigniew Brzezinski explores how emerging technologies and global interdependence would transform politics, society, and U.S. power.
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The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives
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Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era
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this entity surface form:
Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era