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New Industrial State

May 1, 2002 03:35 PM

John Kenneth Galbraith in The New Industrial State, circa 1967:


The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking quite ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men.

This dispenses the need for genius.


Riiight.

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