This report describes these projects in detail: the spread of nuclear materials and weapons-making capability, cancer-testing technology and saccharin, the implications of the Carter Administration’s National Energy Plan, the trade-offs between individual rights and massive computerization of the Nation’s tax information system, ways to spur research on increasing the supply of food, the prospects of solar technology.
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This report describes these projects in detail: the spread of nuclear materials and weapons-making capability, cancer-testing technology and saccharin, the implications of the Carter Administration’s National Energy Plan, the trade-offs between individual rights and massive computerization of the Nation’s tax information system, ways to spur research on increasing the supply of food, the prospects of solar technology.
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Office of Technology Assessment
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United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.Annual Report to the Congress for 1977,
report,
March 1978;
[Washington D.C.].
(https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39839/:
accessed March 18, 2024),
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crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.