In March 1964, a group of prominent American thinkers calling itself the “Ad Hoc Committee on the Triple Revolution” sent a report to then president Lyndon B. Johnson in which they warned that the transformations brought about by “cybernation,” or, as they put it, “the combination of the computer and the automated self-regulating machine” would result in “a system of almost unlimited productive capacity, which requires progressively less human labor.”
