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Pages 33-34

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... More likely, the rapid pace of current developments will continue to create ever more favorable economics, and extend the known technologies into new domains. The forces that control the pace of innovation and technology selection are not likely to change substantially unless the restructuring of the telephone industry produces unexpected results or overseas competition forces government action.
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... Engineering research centers, recently proposed by the National Science Foundation, are only a beginning. Certainly, many areas of high technology the fifth generation of computers, the next phase of microelectronics research, and the flexible manufacturing system, for example~ould benefit from major research centers associated with universities.
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