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Introduction to the series: Science and Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

Roger Williams
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TECHNOLOGY IS ALMOST AS OLD AS MANKIND BUT THE realisation that useful discoveries could be made systematically came only much more recently. This realisation constitutes one of history's most significant bench-marks, it may even be the most significant one. The organization on a massive scale of research and development was an inevitable result, the fruits of scientific and technological development are now ubiquitous, and the economic, social and political ramifications have been and remain profound. About mankind's political evolution, however, its extent and even more its irreversibility, even in these seemingly favourable times, one must continue to be much more cautious.

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Government and Opposition , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , 01 April 1990 , pp. 212 - 218
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1990

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