Show Future Creativity is Essential Space scientist Dr Wernher von Braun has expressed well-founded well concern over the hostility that Is growing in inthis this country toward science and technology He said that those most vocal are the very ones professing professing pro pro- the Ole greatest concern about poverty poor housing g hunger and the quality of the environment These problems problems pro pro- bems of society depend upon our technological capabilities capabilities and increased productivity for their solutions There is unfortunately no visible link between scientific scientific discovery on the moon and our lives h here re on earth Yet there are concepts and knowledge coming out of the Apollo explorations and experiments with the rocks and moon dust that offer the potential of Improving ag agriculture agriculture cul ture and the treatment of disease and may even help helps s us locate mineral resources here on earth or predict earthquakes earth earth- earthquakes earth j quakes he explained Most kost concepts and scientific knowledge take years from rom the tiie time a scientist formulates them until they become become- full full-fl full fledged job-creating job projects By then it has been for forgotten for gotten that it was the scientist who started it it- itin in the first place While the technology anti people are demanding that we pull the plug on modern civilization in the belief that tP somehow we shall be better off in a more primitive state many older and nearly all of the emerging nations nati ns would give their teeth eye-teeth for a fraction of our technological t capabilities Our problems be sov solved d by the to return cult The desire and the need to k know is m more re important important tant than they understand |