Though the first prophets of the 'affluent society' wrote some fifty to seventy years ago, now there is no need of prophecy – we are seeing the new order they sought to describe, its contours, only vague imaginary outlines in their vision of the world, are now the solid substance of hard observable fact. However we must guard against attitudes of complacency or abandon...
There is an argument that science is subject to a law of diminishing returns. This view is fatally flawed, as it fails to take into account the role of technological innovation in boosting the long-run productivity of scientific research...
In every epoch there are certain ideas that seem to catch hold far and wide, making their presence felt in a wide variety of disciplines. Today that thought is almost certainly the notion of the 'tipping point' or 'threshold effect'...
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