"The Impact of Technology." Weil Lecture No. 1, University of North Carolina, Chapel. Hill, North Carolina, April 1
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- Other: April 1
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From the Collection: English
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Increase in efficiency of farmers and its effect on cities and industry; hybrid seed corn; problem of South and surplus people; poorer farmers and their children; genetic differences not great; possible to increase productivity and yet have greater insecurity; technology exalts the dominance of those already on top and makes more hopeless the position of those at the bottom of the pile; but machine should be servant and not master; 5 point program: 1. not policy of scarcity; 2. produce more; 3. don't depend on war; 4. not exports unless get paid; 5. don't condemn farm people to self-sufficing basis; we need ingenuity in social and economic field.
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