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...science and industry. The problem is that industrial experiment radically changes the world, whereas artistic experiment does so only marginally and for a minority. In 1500 an artist like Leonardo could know, and even contribute to, the whole technology of his culture. Not today; the roles of artist and technologist have split, so that art -like kinetic art in the '60s-has had to feed off scientific scraps. One of the revealing ironies of the "A. and T." program was that some artists who moved into areas like aerospace and computers could not even form the necessary questions...
...unsolicited; about 25 volunteer contributions arrive on Salisbury's desk every day. The initially heavy-perhaps too heavy-emphasis on politics has expanded into a broader and more palatable mix. Recent Op-Ed pages have included such bemusingly bizarre articles as an ecological dialogue (in free verse) between Technologist R. Buckminster Fuller and Senator Edmund Muskie and a tense, dramatized first-person account by a white churchman of a late-night subway ride through Harlem...
...Mailer wants to announce that the heavy artillery has hit the bedroom, that sex is no longer spared from the wires of automation, that, in fact, Women's Liberation has an "inbuilt tendency to technologize women." Even more specifically, that Sister Kate, "Good lab assistant Kate" is a stellar technologist, and Ti-Grace Atkinson is "the Chief Engineer of the Armies of Liberation...
...Bravo! for the courage it took to write about America's outdated medical system. As a former medical technologist, and a disabled one for 18 years, there's nothing about hospitals and doctors that I don't know...
...uniqueness. Show me a neurologist who can "give an adequate explanation of conceptual thought in terms of brain action," he says; a zoologist who can "discover a non-human species of animal the members of which engage in conversation with one another"; and, most important of all, a technologist who can "produce a machine, specifically not a computer but an artifact that, without being programmed to do so, can engage in conversation with human beings...