Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impact of technology on human society--on all forms of life--is both the pre-eminent experience of the modern age and, of necessity, a prime concern of contemporary government. The most conspicuous effect of technology has, of course, been to enable vastly greater numbers of persons to be alive at one time, and to provide for those living in the more industrial societies a standard of consumption and amenity never before known, and until recently only barely conceived. Almost without exception the first-order effects of newly introduced technology tend to be regarded as "benefits" to mankind. Especially...
...example, when there were only four gasoline-powered vehicles in the United States, two were in St. Louis, Missouri, and managed to collide with such impact as to injure both drivers, one seriously. Thus was introduced a form of pathology that was to grow steadily from that year to this. It was accompanied by countermeasures not less pervasive in their impact on society...
...moment that she remembers most clearly was seeing "the Prof," as she calls Barnard, carrying in the donor heart, in a stainless-steel pan. When he removed Louis Washkansky's heart, Barnard put this in a pan and handed it to Nurse Jordaan. This moment had no emotional impact. The heart seemed like just another organ to be sent to the pathology department-but in this case, the next stop was the hospital museum...
...shall call him] had quite a different view. So far as I could tell, in all honesty, he believed that the National Liberation Front was winning. We pressed him on this in a number of ways. We asked him about the impact of the firepower on the Vietnamese and he said, yes when it comes to bombing a village or a town, the enormous firepower from the air takes its toll. Primarily, he pointed out, on civilians, and in person I was able to see this on the ground later on. He said, however, that when it comes to controlling...
...told, "has been the failure of the Enlightenment to take root." Why did it fail to thrive? In an essay entitled "The European Civil War," we learn that "national attitudes in the three countries [France, Germany and Italy] were different, and that the difference went back to the impact of the French Revolution." This is some help, but not much, for we now want to know what factors determined the reception accorded the French Revolution...