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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general distrust of the present tendency toward increasing interference by government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 2, 1950 | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

...still too new to furnish any guides for guessing. When the first crude Newcomen steam engines began pumping out British coal mines in 1711, no one could have imagined how they would transform society. One way to help in the projection of the atomic age is to compare present-day life with that of driven Egyptian slaves or verminous medieval peasants. Descendants of present-day man, on the high plateau of level four, may be just as far from life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Half-Century: STEEP CURVE TO LEVEL FOUR | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

Many people, alarmed by these possibilities, wish that science could be "stopped." Novelist E. M. Forster has denounced the "implacable offensive of Science," blaming it for the world's present confusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Half-Century: STEEP CURVE TO LEVEL FOUR | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

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