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Contents

• Science, Technology and the Transformation in the Means of Production
• Biology: The DNA Revolution
• Physics
• Space Exploration
• Computers
• Knowledge Based Production
• The Internet
• The World Environment: Cornucopeian Plenty or a Crisis Situation

Science, Technology and the Transformation in the Means of Production

• WEB See History of Science Sourcebook

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Biology: The DNA Revolution

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Physics

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Space Exploration

• John F. Kennedy: The Space Challenge, Sept 13, 1962 [At this Site]
• Courtney G. Brooks. James M. Grimwood and Loyd S. Swenson, Jr.: Chariots for Apollo: A History of Manned Lunar Spacecraft [At Nasa]
• The Apollo Spacecraft: A Chronology [At NASA]
• WEB The Apollo 11 Mission [At Historyplace]
• Letters on Board Voyager, 1977, [At Internet Archive, from Letters Magazine]
• Report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident [At NASA]

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Computers

• WEB John W. Mauchly and the Development of the ENIAC Computer [At UPenn]
  The ENIAC computer, the first large-scale general-purpose electronic computer, was built in 1946. This is a comprehensive illustrated exhibition.
• Alan Turing

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Knowledge Based Production

• Mass Education
• Tables showing shift in proportions of economic activity [Agriculture, Manufacture, Service]

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The Internet

• WEB Web History Center
  On the history of the world wide web.
• Eric Berger: The Birthplace of the Web, 1991 [At ChemTeam]
• Internet Censorship [At Religious Tolerance][Summary]
• Evan Morris: The Book Lover's Guide to the Internet [At Washington Post]
• Dinty W. Moore: The Emperor's Virtual Clothes The Naked Truth About Internet Culture [At Washington Post]

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The World Environment: Cornucopeian Plenty or a Crisis Situation

• The Club of Rome
• Kirkpatrick Sale: Lessons from the Luddites: Setting Limits On Technology, The Nation, June 5, 1995 [At Calgary]
• Julian Simon: Address [At Internet Archive, from Opus Dei]
  Comments by a leading "cornucopeian" who claims that there is no need to worry about population growth, global warming. etc.

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The date of inception was 9/22/1997.

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