Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...monster steam engine was an appropriate symbol of the American future, but not for the reason most of the spectators suspected. The special hopes, opportunities and achievements, the fears and frustrations that marked the nation's grandeur in its second century - and are destined to mark the century now to come - were to be even newer than visitors to the 1876 exposition could imagine. These came not from bigness but from a new kind of community. New ties would bind Americans together, would bind Americans to the larger world and would bind the world to America. I call this...
...literature in the languages of the marketplace, the community remained a limited one. Thomas Jefferson, for example, considered himself a citizen of that worldwide community because of what he shared with literary and scientific colleagues in France, Italy, Germany, Spain, The Netherlands and elsewhere. When Jefferson offered the young nation his personal library (which was to be the foundation of the Library of Congress), it contained so many foreign-language books (including numerous "atheistical" works of Voltaire and other French revolutionaries) that some members of Congress opposed its purchase. The Republic of Letters was a select community of those...
Most novel of all is our changed attitude toward change. Now nations seem to be distinguished not by their heritage or their stock of monuments (what was once called their civilization), but by their pace of change. Rapidly "developing" nations are those that are most speedily obsolescing their inheritance. While it took centuries or even millenniums to build a civilization, the transformation of an "underdeveloped" nation can be accomplished in mere decades...
...need not even sit still or keep quiet. To enjoy what TV brings, the illiterate are just as well qualified as the educated - some would say even better qualified. Our Age of Broadcasting is a fitting climax, then, to the history of a nation whose birth certificate proclaimed that "all men are created equal" and which has aimed to bring everything to everybody
...Republic of Technology offers us the opportunity to make our nation's third century American in some novel ways. We remain the world's laboratory. We like to try the new as do few other peoples in the world. Our experiment of binding together peoples from everywhere by opportunities rather than by ideologies will continue. The Republic of Technology offers fantastic new opportunities for opportunity...