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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...supposed to be the best information gatherers: why don't we know anything about the large corporations? The university-trained mind is supposed to zero in on important questions: why do the academics always wait for the government or the corporations to point out social problems? The universities obviously develop new roles for men to fill in the social web: why has M. I. T. placed so many of its graduates in the electronics industry, and so few in work of more general benefit...
...Ford said. "I don't have a strong moral feeling about the Project." but such a feeling "might develop as we hear more about the Project" He also said he has "moral reservations against any philosophy saying that the assemblage of knowledge" is evil in itself...
...SECOND thread to our story begins at M.I.T. in the late fifties, where the revolution in computer technology was just getting underway. The great breakthrough that was being made at this time was in the development of computer programming techniques that allowed several different people to work on different tasks on a single computer simultaneously. The development of such "time-sharing" systems enormously improved the efficiency and usefulness of computers, and in 1963 ARPA agreed to fund a project which was intended to develop the full potentialities of the new time- sharing technology. This program (Project MAC) developed over several...
Deutsch has plans to use the facilities made available through the Cambridge Project to develop a theoretical model of national assimilation and social mobilization. Projects of this type- the possible applications of which are simply impossible to predict- are not likely to receive support from anywhere if they don't get it from the Defense Department. Everyone would prefer that the money were available from the National Science Foundation, but it just isn't. And this calls for a final disgression...
...science research in the U.S. today is under Defense Department sponsorship. This trend. by concentrating experience in social science research within the Defense Department, serves to insure that the Defense Department will continue to be the only organization able to use the new applications which its social science programs develop. Alker sees ARPA's move into basic methodological research via the Cambridge Project as the most monopolistic development of all in this regard. In computer technology and the behavioral sciences, the technology contains imperatives of its own, and these are already making obsolete the traditional safeguards of academic openness...