Science policies based on techno-nationalist thinking and fantasies about the past technological revolutions will get us nowhere fast, says David Edgerton.
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Edgerton, D. The charge of technology. Nature 455, 1030–1031 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/4551030a
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