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Plenary Session I: Trends in Science and Technology Policy - The U.S. Perspective: The Here and Now Versus the Ideal
Pages 20-23

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... We serve as officials of public institutions that often tend toward bureaucratic-sclerosis over time. Our first task, it seems to me, should be to commit ourselves to proving incorrect the blessedly unknown scholar who said, "Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status." It is a humorous but not untrue commentary on the danger of institutions holding onto the past instead of lifting their sights to the future.
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From page 21...
... There is an inextricable relationship between the diverse science, engineering, and technology activities in all our nations and the public policy efforts that enable populations, economies, and nations to reap maximum benefit from advances in knowledge and understanding. Although we know this connection by both instinct and example, we are only slowly coming to the recognition that science and technology, and its concomitant policy, must be seriously concerned with the many and great unsolved problems of humankind.
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From page 22...
... There is a global imperative to close the widening gap between the haves and have-nots not through handouts or handdowns but through building knowledge and capacity in poorer nations to enable them to create their own wealth. A1though America is thought of as a rich industrial nation we are facing a similarly widening division in our own borders.
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From page 23...
... We cannot deny that there are overlapping consequences of poverty, planetary devastation, illiteracy, aging populations, communicable diseases, mass migrations of immigrants, agricultural output, energy supply, and others. Grappling with these issues collectively might seem like a completely unmanageable task, at best.
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