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 underdeveloped counterparts. The underdeveloped world now knows that it is 

 heir to this advance and the devices by which it is achieved. But it also 

 knows that laying claim to this heritage means important revision in a cher- 

 ished manner of social relationship. Here it hesitates. Somehow the impres- 

 sion has gone abroad that the condition of social relationship required of 

 technological advance is an inferior one. If there is one massive conclusion 

 in the underdeveloped world, it is that the way that people relate to one 

 another - the meaning of friendship, the dignity of the individual, the integ- 

 rity of the family - all of the most human values are somehow compromised in 

 the achievement of technological advance. 



This is not an impression easily laid to reat. All of our activities 

 to date have not challenged it. Precisely because it is the kind of device 

 by which an old order perpetuates itself, external challenge only serves to 

 reinforce it. Yet work-related associations between technologists from the 

 two settings holds promise. Such association provides the domestic partici- 

 pant an opportunity to observe how his partner - responding to a variant rela- 

 tionship model - goes about his work. He gains immediate exposure to the 

 sense of adventure and excitement that attaches to intellectual search in 

 the field of practical affairs. He comes to understand the organizational 

 forms which make possible a broader range of special purposes and human en- 

 thusiasms, and is encouraged to test some of these - at least experimentally - 

 in his own activities. It may be the cumulative effect of these many small 

 starts - undertaken in the spirit of science and for the purpose of scientific 

 activity - that will equip the underdeveloped nation with the quality of 

 relational underpinning which is the basis of equal participation in the 

 modern world. 



