“In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities effectively exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason.”

— Zbigniew Brzeziński , book Between Two Ages

1970, Between Two Ages : America's Role in the Technetronic Era.

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Polish-American political scientist 1928–2017

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