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Govern Mental Functions: Computers and other devices will make possible data centers where voluminous information on individuals as well as public and private organizations will be instantly retrievable. The implications are for increased efficiency of many govern mental functionsmental functions, and for increased threats to the privacy and freedom of individuals, if adequate safeguards are not built in.
A variety of new polling mechanisms will exist that will take rapid readings of the public pulse. This may have the effect of lessening the concentration of decision making at the top and promoting decision making by consensus.
Camping is widely organized under govern mental functionsmental, voluntary, and commercial auspices. The American Camping Association has an individual membership of over 3,500 most of whom are camp directors. Attendance at various types of summer camps probably is between 3,000,000 and 5,000,000. Day camps have been developed in most urban communities.
And as more fundamental knowledge emerges from basic atomic research, more practical benefits—as yet unimagined and unforeseen—will inevitably emerge too. This has been the history of atomic science since radioactivity was first discovered more than 70 years ago, and it will continue as long as men remain insatiably curious about the forces that govern mental functions the universe of matter around them. |
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