Kirkpatrick Sale

[Dave Monroe]

Celente was followed at the podium by Kirkpatrick Sale, who has a
running ten-thousand-dollar bet with Kevin Kelly, a founding editor of
Wired, that a convergence of crises-financial, environmental,
political-will render entire continents unlivable by 2020 ...

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/01/26/090126fa_fact_mcgrath
http://www.wesjones.com/dystopians.htm

   In 1958, two Cornell undergraduates imagined a dystopian future, a
time when computers would be carried in shirt pockets and corporations
hailed as infallible, and they called it 1998. Writing almost ten
years after George Orwell wrote 1984, the young authors, one an
engineering major turned toward English, the other the editor of the
Cornell Daily Sun, vamped off Orwell’s chilling vision of a monolithic
totalitarian state, but theirs is a tale more of humor, horniness,
Beatniks, and song. The result of their collaboration is a lascivious
Luddite satire called Minstral Island. Perhaps it is but one of many
technology-loathing, future-fearing, copulation-adoring musicals of
the 1950s, but most certainly it is the only one penned by Thomas
Pynchon and Kirkpatrick Sale....

http://www.themodernword.com/Pynchon/paper_gibbs.html

And scroll down @ ...

Luddism
Neo-Luddites
and Dystopian Views of Technology

http://carbon.ucdenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/luddite.html