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All Your Tommorows Today

December 17th, 2007 by Russell Davies

If you fancy some conspiracy theory this might provide handy fuel for your fire. It’s a Radio 3 Sunday feature by Ken Hollings about the RAND corporation, the first think tank, once dubbed the ‘malevolent university’ and influencer of presidents. Though it you look at their website now they seem to be successfully cloaking their malevolence with stock photography. It’s a good old listen, and many thanks to Simon for bringing it to our attention. (I feel we’ve now got to the stage where I can use a collective speechification ‘we’) MP3 here.

Presenter: Ken Hollings
Producer: Mark Burman
Listen: [MP3]

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7 Responses to “All Your Tommorows Today”

  1. steve Says:
    December 18th, 2007 at 10:49 pm

    Absolutely gripping stuff. I sort of half want to work there…

  2. hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » RAND: When Academics Attack Says:
    September 15th, 2008 at 10:00 pm

    [...] All Your Tomorrows Today is a Ken Hollings/BBC documentary about the early days of RAND Corporation. Assembled by Curtis LeMay’s post-war Airf Force and highly influential to US cold war political strategy, the RAND people were early systems thinkers, and their systems were comprised largely of nations and nuclear weapons. They desired rationality on topics that don’t lend themselves to rationality. And perhaps shouldn’t, but don’t suggest that to the main characters in this story. [...]

  3. Radio documentary on RAND Corporation | The Current Buzz - Tech Says:
    September 16th, 2008 at 1:05 am

    [...] To Mars: Science and the American Century, 1947-1959, is forthcoming from Strange Attractor Press. RAND: All Your Tomorrows Today (speechification.com, thanks Mark [...]

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  5. simon Says:
    September 16th, 2008 at 9:44 am

    this is very intriguing, however the audio sounds like it’s underwater

  6. Opera Tronickss » Blog Archive Says:
    September 17th, 2008 at 1:40 pm

    [...] To Mars: Science and the American Century, 1947-1959, is forthcoming from Strange Attractor Press. RAND: All Your Tomorrows Today (speechification.com, thanks Mark [...]

  7. fubar Says:
    October 19th, 2008 at 1:46 am

    i worked at rand in santamonica 1993 when all was done underground, i mostly worked on compilation of web info, also worked on futurist ideas(was the brownie) such things as police state ‘V’ martial law

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