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It outlines the emergence of the technetronic age, the uneven and contradictory effects of the United States as a disseminator of influence, and the development of “global ghettos.” It further examines trends toward fragmentation and unification, the formation of a planetary consciousness, and the dynamics of volatile belief and the search for universal vision.","BETWEEN TWO AGES  \nAmerica's Role in the Technetronic Era  \nZbigniew Brzezinski  \nTHE VIKING PRESS / NEW YORK  \nCopyright © 1970 by Zbigniew Brzezinski All rights reserved  \nFirst published in 1970 by The Viking Press, Inc. 625 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022 Published simultaneously in Canada by The Macmillan Company ofCanada Limited  \nISBN 670 16041 5  \nLibrary of Congress catalog card number: 76 104162  \nPrinted in U. S.Aby H. Wolff Book Mfg. Co.  \nPrepared under the auspices of the Research Institute on Communist Affairs, Columbia University Portions ofthis book appeared in Encounter in different form  \nFor Ian, Mark, and Mika  \nAcknowledgments  \nThough this book deals with communism only in part—and then primarily in relation to the broader issues with which I am concerned—the Research Institute on Communist Affairs of Columbia University provided me with invaluable research assistance and with a congenial and stimulating setting. My colleagues at the Institute little realize how very helpful they have been in the gradual process of shaping my ideas, testing my views, and enlarging my perspectives. The manuscript was read and criticized by a number of friends and colleagues. I am especially grateful to Professor Samuel P. Huntington for his trenchant criticisms and very helpful recommendations; to Professor Albert A. Mavrinac, who maintained our friendly tradition of his questioning my arguments and of forcing me to rethink some of my propositions; to Mrs. Christine Dodson, the former Administrative Assistant of the Research Institute, who prepared a very constructive and highly perceptive chapter length critique of the entire draft; and to Professor Alexander Erlich for steering me away from some economic pitfalls. I am also most obliged and grateful to Miss Sophia Sluzar, currently the Administrative Assistant, who very ably supervised the over all preparation of the manuscript and who earlier was instrumental in preparing the tables and assembling the needed data. Miss Toby Trister, my research assistant, was indefatigable in exposing my inaccuracies, in filling bibliographic gaps, and in completing the research. Miss Dorothy Rodnite, Miss Michelle Elwyn, and Mr. Myron Gutmann amiably and efficiently—even when under great pressures of time—devoted their energies to the completion of the manuscript. To all of them I owe a debt which I am pleased to acknowledge.  \nI also wish to note my obligation to Mr. Marshall Best of The Viking Press, on whose experience and wise counsel I often relied, and to Mr. Stanley Hochman for his sensitive editorial assistance.  \nA special mention is due to my wife. In all my writing I have never come across a more conscientious reader, a more ferocious critic, and a more determined—dare I say obstinate?—perfectionist. I have no hesitation in saying, though only now I say it with relief, that any merit this essay may have is in large measure due to her efforts.  \nZ.B. October 1969  \nContents  \nCONTENTS .................................................................................................................................................... 3  \nTHE GLOBAL IMPACT OF THE ................................................................................................................ 8  \nTECHNETRONIC REVOLUTION............................................................................................................... 8  \n1. 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