“Akin to, and largely responsible for, the sweeping changes in our
industrial and military posture; has been the technological revolution
during recent decades. In this revolution; research has become central;
and it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily
increasing share is conducted by, for, or at the direction of, the
Federal government. The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars
by Federal employment, project allocation, and the power of money, is
ever present and gravely to be regarded. In holding scientific discovery
in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and
opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a
scientific and technological elite.”
-President Dwight Eisenhower, in his farewell address
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