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CONTENTS: Foreword, The Legacy of technological know-how, James Burke, Accomplishments of technological know-how by means of the 12 months 2000, Jules Bergman, Our destiny within the Cosmos---Computers, Isaac Asimov, Our destiny within the Cosmos---Space, Isaac Asimov,

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The future may be unpredictable, but we can make a few well-aimed guesses about what life will be like in the year 2000. We’ll fly on supersonic transports, or more likely hypersonic transports, for which the ground work (or should I call it air work) has already been laid at places like NASA Langley Research Center. We’ll have put the genetic code to work and begun to engineer out congenital birth defects and inherited diseases. We’ll have made a real start toward the prevention and conquest of both heart disease and cancer.

What I worry about are the maniacs, the smaller powers who are trying to attract attention to themselves. As for the MX, you’ve seen the Washington confusion about which way to go, and I think it has a distance to go before it straightens itself out. I , I , Question: We read often about the medical, technological, and military research from overseas-say Japan or Russia. Speaking particularly of medicine, do you see in the future the possibility for greater foreign cooperation? I know there has supposedly been some tremendous research on cancer in Sweden, Norway, and England, which we can’t take advantage of because of FDA restrictions.

In many ways this is because of the news media-the same media, especially television, which is accused of distorting and overplaying the news, and sometimes does so by mediocrity, accident, or deadline, but seldom by intention. That same media may just have saved us by focusing attention on these crises in time, before they get out of control. You’ve heard a lot about EPA and dioxin recently; well, let me tell you what’s coming up. I happen to know because I’ve been researching this. You’ve read about the dioxin sites in Missouri; well, it’s likely that there are thousands of dioxin sites across this country, most of them unknown.

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