"Every month there. are further indications that
the. unholy.. marriage - between” computer - tech-
nology and a. vastly. overblown: bureaucracy: are
sweeping us: towards. George Orwell’s 19847
much too fast for comfort. Mrs: Andree Ross of
North Vancouver is one of the many who. share.

that viewpoint—but she | shares: it” with a
difference. a oe
‘Mrs. .- Ross,. “you” "gee;

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wringing her hands over ‘the -
problem. She also proposes a’
positive solution—and an
extremely. original one at
that. Recently she wrote us a
long letter on the subject and .
some of the points she makes
are so important that this.
week’s FOCUS is glad to
have her as its guest...

‘Here, in full, is what Mrs.
‘Ross has to say:

Peter Speck’s column of -
-Oct. 12th (Speckulations) on
the mushrooming size and
cost of government is still
very much on my. mind. ’'m
sure others who have objec-
téd to unsound government
policies have noticed, as I
have, that technological
truths are never favoured by —
civil. servants over public.

relations dogma. = = ==: 150,000 references each

Much of the problem, I year. Since this represents
believe, is that our scientific - only 552 of new knowledge in
knowledge is expanding at ‘only one scientific discipline,
such'an enormous rate that perhaps our M.L.S.’s and
we can no longer’ keep. up. °M.P’scan be forgiven for not
with it. knowing whom to believe..

information loss, some 452 of
their expenditures in this
“area were unproductive.

The U. S. National Library
of Health indexes some

But the abuses inherent in
a bureaucracy that has given
up trying to keep informed is

something we can’t afford to
ignore. ;

One _example of this
information glut.is a study of
research appropriations done |
during the Kennedy Regime.
it found . that because of

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