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From Space Colonies to Nanobots to Xanadu: California’s Technological Enthusiasts, 1970-1990

The idea that America and other industrialized societies faced limits to their power and future economic growth helped define the 1970s. While scientists and free-market economists criticized this perspective, these Malthusian views stimulated fierce debate about the need to adopt a steady-state lifestyle. "Limits" to resources, energy, wealth, even life itself - became a staple theme for movies, television shows and fiction.

Andy Kirk is a Professor of History at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. His talk will explore how today’s tremendous interest in sustainability and green technologies has its roots in the American counterculture of the1960s and ‘70s.