Abstract

The Shape of Things
July 24, 1937 issue

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The report of the National Resources Committee on Technological Trends and Social Policy stands as a illustration of the possibilities of planning in a country as advanced as the U.S. A dramatic picture is drawn of possible developments in the field of science and the effects of those developments on society. The committee points out that many of the experiments, which are now being carried on with air-conditioning, prefabricated houses, tray agriculture, artificial cotton, and the photoelectric cell will have results of great potential value to humanity but that each new labor-saving invention will throw thousands of skilled workers on the scrap heap along with the discarded process.

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SOCIAL policy; GOVERNMENT policy; PLANNING; SOCIETIES; AGRICULTURE; SKILLED labor; HUMANITY
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