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Dwelling Service Industry:
"Science, having been employed almost exclusively in weapons development, will find itself progressively unemployed. The weapons-producing companies and the weapons-support industries, having high capabilities but dwindling contracts, are going to struggle ruthlessly to find other profitable enterprises. They will move overnight into the living as opposed to the killing arts. We have already noted their probably move into education. Another probably move is onto the arts and services usually mistakenly spoken of housing.
“All you have to do is have a meeting with advanced industrial technology management to realize their inherent ineptitude in respect to the art and science governing the living service industry. Talk about a ‘house’ and the industrialists immediately think about stamping out an aluminum or plastic replica of a Cotswold cottage, or they think about stamping out curtain walls or partitions: ‘You have to stamp out something.’ That is as far as their brains, conditioned by advertisements and traditions, permit them to go in the byways of categoryitis.”
“The scientists’ ‘house’-catalyzed concepts are even less imaginative and useful. The carriage, railway, and steamship”
