Scope and Contents

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Scope and Contents Includes flier announcing event.This audio recording is of a special seminar held at The New School on the subject of science, society, and the future. New School Associates board member Gwen Williams introduces the moderator, New School professor Ralph Buultjens, who speaks at 2:10, introducing the panelists and the first speaker, writer Isaac Asimov. Asimov begins at 10:02, discussing the importance of advances in science and technology for dealing with coming social crises such as energy depletion and overpopulation. Nobel Prize-winning physicist Rosalyn Yalow speaks at 42:14 on advances in nuclear medicine and the use of radio isotopes in treatment and diagnosis, and warns against anti-nuclear and anti-science trends in society. Wassily Leontief of the Insititute for Economic Analysis at New York University speaks at 1:05:22 on economics and the future. In the second part of the recording, Wassily Leontief continues his remarks, discussing the problem of...