Never before has the U.S. scientist been so important to government and industry. But does that mean he never had it so good? Last week at Indiana's Wabash College, Norbert (Cybernetics) Wiener, professor of mathematics at M.I.T., flatly answered no. Politics aside, said he, the role the scientist now plays can seriously endanger his intellectual health.
Up until World War II, the hard core of American science was to a large extent the individual scholar working alone and voluntarily sharing his work with like-minded people. But then came radar and the atomic bomb and the "need to do something about these quickly....
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