It is curious how I have gained a reputation as a curmudgeonly commentator on science and technology issues. I like to think that the term “curmudgeon” is inappropriate, because I believe I'm just more outspoken and possibly more realistic than most self‐appointed gurus in the embattled field of science and technology policy. So to maintain my status, I will stick my neck out to speculate on some trends and patterns in science and technology as well as in higher education.

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S. W. Leslie, The Cold War and American Science: The Military‐Industrial‐Academic Complex at MIT and Stanford, Columbia U.P., New York (1993).
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J. P. Clark, M. C. Flemings. Sci. Am., October 1986, p. 50.
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The Economist, 19 March 1994.
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World Commission on Environment and Development, Our Common Future, Oxford U.P., Oxford, England (1987).
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The Economist, 25 December 1993, p. 72.
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