43 sats \ 1 reply \ @plebpoet 2 Sep \ on: The Modern Times Utopian Community And Proof Of Work bitcoin
reminded me of this book Walden Two
This fictional outline of a modern utopia has been a center of controversy since its publication in 1948. Set in the United States, it pictures a society in which human problems are solved by a scientific technology of human conduct.
The author, B. F. Skinner, was one of the first to set up successful behavioral conditioning experiments. Influential guy. I started this book, but got a little bored
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90 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 OP 2 Sep
@ek's post about transcendentalism reminded me of Modern Times, although I couldn't find any direct connection: #669132
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