Word: techno
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...romantic revolution continues, and it is hard to imagine that it will not, its adherents will have to confront what Raymond Aron calls the "constraints of fact-the need for organization, for a technical hierarchy, for a techno-bureaucracy." These are the "givens" of current civilization that cannot be dreamed, wished or shouted away. That civilization, in its turn, will have...
...work for the establishment media because the latter is not independent of the power of the rich sub-classes. But it is better to work for the establishment media than it is to enter the System. Breaking from the System means that under no circumstances should anyone join the techno-structural elite, or worse still, the Rich...
...Congress used the piece to bolster their argument that the fields should be attacked. They soon were. When the British government seemed on the point of withdrawing from the Anglo-French supersonic-transport program, Aviation Week warned that such a decision could reduce Britain to a "second-rate techno logical power." Many M.P.s praised the article, and it helped persuade the British to stay with the program...
Dominating Issue. Harold Wilson puts forward a more inclusive vision. British entry into the Common Market would mean a bigger, potentially far more powerful Europe, adding to the Market 54 million more customers. Britain's science-based industries would help the Continental nations close the techno logical gap with the U.S. Its participation would pave the way for the eventual inclusion in the Market of most, if not all, of the other EFTA nations with which Britain is now economically allied. That would boost the Market's population to more than 250 million, give Europe an economic might...
...long sweep of history, however, none of 1961's most clamorous developments were likely to loom as large as another, less-publicized phenomenon: the coming of age of automation. Half reluctantly, the U.S public in 1961 began to sense that it was in the midst of a techno logical revolution, and to consider the consequences...