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Technology and Its Role in Modern Society
Technology and Its Role in Modern Society
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And, just as those Revolutionary War patriots were called upon to take a stand 200 years ago, so modern Americans were summoned by President Reagan in his 1985 State of the Union address to what he termed the "Second American Revolution." He spoke optimistically of our opportunities and of our technological prowess. We must, however, be prepared to seize those opportunities if we are to capitalize on them.
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For example, during its infancy and years of coming of age, the nuclear power industry was enthusiastically supported, eagerly awaited by an overwhelming majority of the American public. Yet, with the cooling of public sentiment for technology in the mid-1970s, the nuclear power industry came to a stalemate.
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of the National Medal of Technology recipients honored recently by President Reagan are members of our Academy—one of those so honored was Ralph Landau, a guiding spins behind this volume. The National Academy of Engineenug has been very successful during its first two decades of existence.
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A major such direction was established on March 13, 1985, when the National Academy of Engineenng was asked by President Reagan '`to take the lead and work with the National Academy of Sciences and other technical organizations, to marshal the nation's technical engineering-based expertise in a campaign that will ensure Amenca's scientific, technological and engineenng leadership into the 21st Century." He cited the need to "regain U.S. industrial competitiveness and E-establish our technological leadership." He noted "two conditions of utmost importance to these efforts: · "First, we must engage the best minds and experience the county has to offer, and · "Second, the private sector must take the lead." He went on to say that the National Academy of Engineenng's "Decade III Program will address the broad spectrum of issues essential to industrial competitiveness and technological leadership." On behalf of the National Academy of Engineering, I wish to state that we are not only honored and pleased with He President's request, but we can hope to meet that challenge only with the help and energetic participation of all the interests represented in He pages of this volume and with He full range of scientific, technological, and engineering interests that are not so represented.
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