On Understanding Change

The Harvard University Program on Technology and Society was set up in June 1964, under a $5,000,000 grant from the IBM Corporation, to undertake an inquiry in depth into the effects of rapid technological change on the economy, on public policies, and on the character of the society, as well as into the reciprocal effects of social change on the nature, dimension, and directions of scientific and technological developments. A ten-year program, it is expected to engage the intellectual resources of all the relevant schools and faculties of the University. It is thus truly a university-wide effort, and it is hoped and expected that it will develop into a genuinely interdisciplinary one as well. Principal responsibility for the conduct of the Program rests with a nine-member faculty committee that presently represents the Graduate Schools of Public Administration, Business Administration, Education, and Arts and Sciences, including the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics. As other schools or faculties-Law, for example, or Public Health-become active in the Program, it is expected that they will be represented on the faculty committee. The planning function and the administration of the Program lie with

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