"From society's standpoint, modern science and technology appears Janus-faced : It has given us wealth in one sense, and poverty in another; it has harnessed nature to man's basic needs in ways and to extents undreamed - of only a few decades ago, but it has fostered a continuingly lowered "quality of life"."
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Richard F. Ericson
Richard Ferdinand Ericson (1919–1993) was an American organizational theorist, and Professor of Management at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
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