America Beyond 2001 | Technology Can Secure America’s Future

Trains that float above their tracks for a smooth, fast ride. Enormously powerful computers that will understand speech and help design new drugs. Motors the size of a dust speck, batterypowered cars, genetically engineered supercrops.

The coming decade [1990s] promises great progress on these and other technologies that have the potential to bolster the nation’s economic well-being and help humanity. It also promises to be a decade of conflict as different industries argue for Government help in developing particular technologies. . . .

Lists of critical technologies...

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