ECOR 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: William Forster Lloyd, John Von Neumann, Cesspit
20 Oct 2017
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It is our considered professional judgment that this dilemma has no technical solution. If the great powers continue to look for solutions in the area of science and technology only, the result will be to worsen the situation. I would like to focus your attention not on the subject of the article (national secu- rity in a nuclear world) but on the kind of conclusion they reached, namely that there is no technical solution to the problem. An implicit and almost universal assumption of discussions published in professional and semipopular scientific journals is that the problem under discussion has a technical solution. A technical solution may be de- fined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, de- manding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality. In our day (though not in earlier times) technical solutions are always welcome.
