Control Of Industry By U.S. Foreseen
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter— Copyright) MELBOURNE, Feb. 23. All science-intensive industries would probably be essentially under American control by the 1980 s, an Australian Nobel-prize winning scientist, Sir Macfarhane Burnet, said on Friday.
Even Russia might then be in the United States technological orbit, be said. Sir Macfarlane Burnet was opening a symposium at Melbourne University on Australia’s needs in post-graduate research training organised bv the National Association of Australian Research scholars.
He said that looking at Australia's position in the 1980 s, he would first assume that the centre of scientific technological initiative would be even more concentrated than it was now to the United States and Russia.
“It might even happen by then that Russia was also in the United States orbit,” he said.
“Short of world catastrophe or some other completely unforeseeable happening, Australia is bound to be a techno-
logical satellite of the United States.
i “In all probability all sei-ence-intensive industries will! be essentially under the I American control.” Sir Macfarlane Burnet said it would be inevitable that men of very high technology I cal and managerial potential would be attracted to Amer- ; ica. He said by the 1980 s fulltime research could well be ithe most important and larg- ! est group of careers for those I who had undertaken graduate study. : Sir Macfarlane Burnet was !a joint winner of the Nobel i prize for medicine in 1960.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31922, 25 February 1969, Page 6
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