DISCUSSION 
to make steel, or go to Manchester in order to hear the Hallé 
Orchestra. We can multiply these examples, both on the in- 
dustrial and on the cultural level, many times over. The wide 
availability of energy, the growth of automation, and the bio- 
logical revolution in health, are three grounds why, in the next 
50 to 100 years, isolated communities of 30,000-60,000 can 
be just as viable, and just as cultured, as any giant city of the 
past. Therefore it becomes possible in the future to visualize 
highly integrated national and supranational bodies which are 
not dependent on crowded and sprawling cities for their indus- 
trial and intellectual leadership. 
Price: Having been earlier somewhat consoled, pacified 
and encouraged by finding that the problem of man’s biological 
habitat is not really so terribly severe, that we are likely to last 
for another 35 or 50 years without any hardship for about 20 
per cent or so of the population, I am now extremely worried 
by the discussion on the sociological habitat. I am perturbed 
and frightened by what seems to be a traditional underplaying 
of this situation. Can I point out that this sociological habitat, 
by virtue of science and technology, is now exploding very 
much more rapidly than the population? The population is 
doubling every 35 years or so. Science and technology, in 
terms of manpower and publications, are doubling every ten 
years, that is to say, they are running through an order of 
magnitude, a factor of ten, with each successive generation. In 
terms of money, the investment in science is going up roughly 
as the square of the number of people engaged in it—and this is 
even worse because it implies doubling every five years. 
Science and technology, and our economic and political sys- 
tems built upon them, seem to be in danger of starvation of 
money and people, and subject to the failure of communication 
between intellects. This starvation seems likely to occur within 
as many decades as it is going to take generations to produce 
similar problems in the biological habitat of man. 
Can we pinpoint some of the results of this explosion of science 
and technology? We have discussed only the static influences 
on our society. Let us consider the dynamic ones, of what is 
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