America and the World Experience
Six talks on the eve of America's bicentennial celebrations by Daniel J. Boorstin , Librarian of Congress and former Senior Historian at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
4: The Dark Continent of Technology: The Power to Leap
In his first three lectures Dr Boorstin dealt with America's impact upon the world during the formative years of the United States. He now moves forward to the 20th century and examines the ways in which modern technology has tended to neutralise or destroy some of the peculiar American opportunities that he celebrated in his earlier talks.