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Only science-fiction writers and the most prescient experts in science and technology have been able to forecast the rapid pace of change along the frontiers of science over the past decade. The explosive development of the internet and digital communications, improvements in genetically modified organisms, the advent of commercially viable cloning, improvements in energy storage and collection and major innovations in the manufacture and use of materials have significantly transformed commercial and political expectations about the future. Only the Sputnik-driven scientific and arms race of the 1960s compares to the extent and sweep of the current commitment to science and technology, although the modern age lacks a comparable emphasis on militarization and space.
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Holroyd, C., Coates, K. (2007). The Frontiers of Japanese Science and Commerce. In: Innovation Nation. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230599451_7
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