ABSTRACT
The pace of change has quickened in the intervening years, and the prospect appears to be for continued acceleration. Science and technology advising has experienced undulations of popularity and, like life itself, has responded in an evolutionary way to changing circumstances, adapting with more or less successful mutations to a varying environment. Modifications will continue to occur, stimulated by changes in the personalities of the Presidents and in the competitive strengths of the several Departments of the Executive Branch and of their Secretaries. The Congress and the Judiciary will, of course, be affected by comparable factors. Presidential attitude and action will be the resultant of many forces, political and economic as well as scientific and technological. Realists will understand that. Much of the advice will be influential rather than decisive. Much of it will be of long-term value, long-term influence on policy issues that may involve no immediate decisions.
