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Technology and national research policy

JAN 01, 1954
An address before the Public Affairs Institute, July 9, 1953, at the University of Virginia.
Merle A. Tuve

The tremendous changes which have been wrought by technology in the private lives of perhaps a quarter of the people of the world, and its effects on the lives of all the others, the impact of technology on public affairs in every country, and on the whole range of international exchanges and needs and stresses, make it appropriate to include some discussion of technological developments in your examination this week of “The Outlook for the Free World”.

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Merle A. Tuve, Carnegie Institution of Washington.

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