The Impact of Technological Advances on the Lives of Mentally Retarded Persons in the Year 2000

Abstract

Our society is in a state of massive transition. For the first half of this century, resources were substantially unlimited and manpower was in short supply, as were consumer goods and services. In such a situation, the simple free-enterprise system of Adam Smith and the Puritan ethic were functional. The more effectively the total manpower pool of the nation could be coupled to productive acitivity, the better off the whole nation would be.