• DocumentCode
    1144940
  • Title

    Slow Death of a Free Profession

  • Author

    Ackerman, Adolph J.

  • Author_Institution
    1250 Sherman Ave., Madison, Wisc. 53703
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    1971
  • fDate
    5/1/1971 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    418
  • Lastpage
    428
  • Abstract
    The Scientific Revolution of the twentieth century has been exploited and subverted in our country by the "political-scientific" complex. This complex has discarded our traditional system under which the planning and organizing of productive scientific ventures has been in the hands of responsible professional engineers whose first duty is to serve the best interests of the public. Instead, this complex originates and administers highly sophisticated sciencebased programs, whose open-ended deficit financing is rapidly undermining our American economic system. By this means America is gradually being committed to a system of centralized authority and to the eventual disappearance of human liberty and justice under law. This marks an historic turning point for the world and for all mankind. The scientific term for this process is "technocratic petrification of freedom" which ends in "scientific despotism."
  • Keywords
    Books; Business; History; Humans; Organizing; Sleep; Space technology; Turning; US Government; Writing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9251
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TAES.1971.310281
  • Filename
    4103729