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Science and Technology: The Implications for International Institutions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Eugene B. Skolnikoff
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It is clear that advances in science and technology, particularly technology, have wrought major changes in society. The effects of these advances have been felt directly through the development of major new artifacts such as the automobile, the telephone, and nuclear weapons. Major social effects, often of greater importance, have also resulted from the second-order consequences of this new technology: urbanization, mass culture, pollution, industrialization, etc.

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Research Article
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International Organization , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , fall 1971 , pp. 759 - 775
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1971

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1 More extensive detail is available from, among other sources, MacDonald, Gorden J. D., “The Modification of Planet Earth by Man,” Technology Review, 10–11 1969 (Vol. 72, No. 1), pp. 27–35Google Scholar; Malone, T. F., “Current Developments in the Atmospheric Sciences and Some of Their Implications for Foreign Policy” (Paper presented at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, 06 16–17, 1968)Google Scholar; and Man's Impact on the Global Environment: Assessment and Recommendations for Action, Report of the Study of Critical Environmental Problems (SCEP) (Cambridge, Mass: M.I.T. Press, 1970)Google Scholar.

2 Man's Impact on the Global Environment.

3 Project Westford deployed a belt of copper “needles” in the upper atmosphere for radio communication experiments.

4 For details consult Useful Application of Earth-Oriented Satellites (Washington: National Academy of Sciences and National Research Council, 1969)Google Scholar; and Selected Space Goals and Objectives and Their Relation to National Goals (Report No. BMI-NLVP-TR-69–2) (Columbus, Ohio: Battelle Memorial Institute [for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration], 07 15, 1969)Google Scholar.

5 UN Document E/CN.9/231 (World Population Situation, Note by the Secretary-General), table 14, p. 117; and Chedd, Graham, “Famine or Sanity?” New Scientist, 10 23, 1969 (Vol. 44, No. 672), pp. 178–182Google Scholar.