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The spearhead of this transition is expected to come from rapidly growing high-technology industries such as computers and semiconductors, software, biogenetics, and telecommunications.",{"name":119,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":120},"What main weaknesses does the article criticize about Global Stakes?",{"text":121,"@type":113},"The article criticizes the inability to offer a satisfactory, operational definition of “high technology,” overly equating it with a narrow set of industries while dismissing others as “sunset industries.” It also faults the writing quality, suggesting that unclear or poorly constructed sentences may reduce the book’s impact on 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ofdespair and defensiveness.Until just a few years ago,it was characterized by aconfident,forward-looking energy,secure in the notion that it was the pre-eminent engine of national development.Since then,we have seen our relativesalaries decline;our plant,equipment,and libraries erode;our jobs threatened;and the value of our contribution to Canadian society severely questioned.Anumber of explanations could be given for this dramatic reversal of our fortunes,with emphasis ranging from demographics to poor public relations,from econo-mic stagnation to short-sighted political manoeuvering.One popular explanationis that Canadian higher education is now (justly)paying off debts it incurred ina Faustian compact with homo economicus.We financed our tremendous growthof yesteryear,this explanation purports,on promises of contributing substantially(or worse,by ourselves,delivering)unprecedented economic growth and indus-trial expansion.Now that industrial expansion has come to a standstill (and evendeclined),the primary case for generous funding of higher education is at bestcalled into question,and at worst severely undermined.  \nFor those who accept this retributional explanation of the cause of the currentcrisis of finance and purpose in higher education,Global Stakes,will likely beperceived as one of the most exciting and optimism-creating books to come alongin several years,and one which may galvanize a new sense of purpose and direc-tion among the scientific and technological sectors ofhigher education.Reactionsto this book in the higher education community as a whole,however,are likelyto be extreme.Others may dismiss it as merely self-serving advancement of acomputer/electronics lobby or pandering to the wishful fantasies of engineeringdeans.Humanists and classicists may(for reasons suggested by the authors)besimply bewildered by it,or wonder if the cure advanced in this book is worsethan the present illness in higher education.  \nThe major premise of Global Stakes is that industrialism is presently at thethreshold of a new era in which the dominance of the capital-intensive,physical-  \n·This special feature article is an expanded critical analysis of the book entitled GlobalStakes:The Future of High Technology in America,authored by James Botkin et al.,andpublished by Ballinger Publishing Company,Cambridge,Massachusetts,1982.  \n+Chairman,Higher Education Group,Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.  \nresource-based economy of the past will give way to a knowledge-intensive,human-resource based economy.The spearhead of this transition will be therapidly growing computer,semiconductor,software,biogenetics,and tele-communications industries.Growth of these industries will require an extra-ordinary expansion of research and enrolment (e.g.at least a tripling of engineer-ing graduates in the United States).The title of the book comes from the notionthat the purported transformation of industrialism willoccur in a highly compe-titive world economy,and those nations which do not make the necessaryadjustments will become economic backwaters,with resultant declines in livingstandards and quality of life.  \nThe general theme of this book is not new.Futurists have been presenting uswith visions of the knowledge society for quite some time,and the authors makeappropriate reference to Bell,Machlup,Toffler and Forrester(though their treat-ment of the post-industrial and other futures literature is pretty scanty).Theirmain contribution is more in eschewing abstract scenarios,and instead presentinghard evidence and case study of the high technology developments which haveoccurred,and detailing the implications of such developments for higher educa-.tion and other areas of public policy.For example,they observe that accelerateddepreciation and investment tax credits may be a great boon to ol","cbCaimRDTSc9pGyl","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimRDTSc9pGyl","pdf",460401,"English","# Will High Technology SaveHigher Education From Decline?\n## Higher education crisis and competing explanations\n## Global Stakes reception in the higher-education community\n## Core premise: knowledge-intensive economy\n## Evidence vs. futures scenarios and policy implications\n## Critiques: definition, scope, and writing quality","[{\"question\":\"What does the article say caused the decline in Canadian higher education?\",\"answer\":\"It describes a reversal from earlier confidence to despair and defensiveness, citing salary declines, eroding resources, threatened jobs, and doubts about higher education’s contribution. 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