A conversation on the history of the 1972 “Limits to Growth” computer model, management systems, Chernobyl, and the geopolitical power of images in the era of mass surveillance.

1972 was the year when the environmentalist The Limits to Growth report was published, using data generated by the first system dynamics computer model. In 1986, a satellite image was used as proof of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. A conversation on the history of the 1972 “Limits to Growth” computer model, management systems, Chernobyl, and the geopolitical power of images in the era of mass surveillance.

With Sara Nelson and Johan Gärdebo.