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National Commission on Technology, Automation, and Economic Progress, “Technology and the American Economy: Report of the National Commission on Technology, Automation, and Economic Progress, Volume I” (1966-02) bears on M01. The Commission says the present is a time of rapid progress but that 'this is as far as we are prepared to go'. It concludes that no sharp break in the continuity of technical progress has occurred or is likely in the next decade. Copy claim link
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Date 1966-02 · publication Role Context Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Missing element Agnostic on whether the computer is more revolutionary than earlier technologies; gives no positive analysis of it as ordinary technical change. Tier Tier 2. Main Commission report: tier 2 by maintainer decision of 2026-10-12 (most members were not economists; the chair Bowen and Solow were). Was tier 1. The chairman's introduction (pp. xi–xiv, by Bowen) is outside the official report; it stays here at tier 2 by maintainer decision of 2026-10-12. Conditions Agnostic rather than a denial. The chapter then measures technological change through output per man-hour and diffusion lags, the same measures for every innovation. Scope and limits Puts the computer on a par with earlier general technologies and gives it no separate category. Checked against the raw djvu text (.html) only.
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Technology and the American Economy: Report of the National Commission on Technology, Automation, and Economic Progress, Volume I ↗ Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, February 1966, xiv + 115 pp.; ERIC ED 023 803 · 1966-02
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Source excerpt “It is beyond our knowledge to know whether the computer, nuclear power, and molecular biology are quantitatively or qualitatively more “revolutionary” than the telephone, electric power, and bacteriology.” Location in source printed p. 1 (Part I, ch. 1)
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Source details and check notes Authors National Commission on Technology, Automation, and Economic Progress Version Internet Archive OCR text (djvu.txt) of a scanned copy, retrieved 2026-10-09 from https://dn790006.ca.archive.org/0/items/ERICED023803/ERICED023803djvu.txt; OCR errors possible; quotes checked only against clean stretches. Current copy; no earlier capture compared. SHA-256 d23de21a0c05416f957dda13acb680f1baa77ee88e3c094966e8eaba50db637b. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-09 Language English (en) Attribution National Commission on Technology, Automation, and Economic Progress, “Technology and the American Economy: Report of the National Commission on Technology, Automation, and Economic Progress, Volume I”, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, February 1966, xiv + 115 pp.; ERIC ED 023 803, 1966-02. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage M01-06 (research/economics-mainstream). The quotation (28 words) matched the retrieved current copy (SHA-256 d23de21a0c05416f957dda13acb680f1baa77ee88e3c094966e8eaba50db637b) in the pack's verification. Re-checked at admission on 2026-10-14 against a copy retrieved that day. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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Date. Report dated February 1966. The chairman's introduction (pp. xi–xiv) is stated not to be part of the official report. Checked in a current copy; an archive capture was not available, so earlier bytes are not authenticated.
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