EST: The Steersman Handbook - Charts of the Coming Decade of Conflict

154 pp. est: The Steersman Handbook, Charts of the Coming Decade of Conflict is a work of science fiction cast as a nonfictional study. Its author, credited as L. Clark Stevens, usually went by the name Leslie Stevens. Stevens has a long list of credits in the entertainment industry, having worked on, among other productions, The Outer Limits. The book was published in paperback in 1970, and reprinted in 1971. The "est" in the book's title refers to what Stevens described as "Electronic Social Transformation".[1][2][3] The book described a future society and the rise of what Stevens described as the "est people".[1][2] The "est people" were a new generation of postliterate humans who were to bring about a "transformation" of society.[1][2] The "est people" were to be technically minded, eclectic, and computer literate. They would possess qualities necessary for social transformation, integral to Earth's survival. Individuals named as examples of "est people" in the book included R. Buckminster Fuller, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Ralph Nader, Marshall McLuhan, Malcolm X, Albert Einstein, Lewis Mumford, and Eric Hoffer.