ABSTRACT
The university is a striking example of endurance among social institutions. In describing the broad social changes that have been refashioning the United States, one axis of change is the creation of a national society on a giant scale. Simulation has been applied to a large variety of economic and sociological problems, such as simulating an entire economy, charting demographic changes, or predicting changes of attitudes in response to changed social environments. Professor Richard Stone, of Cambridge University, has created a simulation model of the British economy, and is thus in a position to state what changes in different sectors of the British economy are required to achieve different economic growth rates. The far-reaching consequences of these social changes are clear: society is becoming "future-oriented", and it is becoming more planned. The heavy concentration of government money in the physical sciences has led the foundations to concentrate their support on the life sciences and the social sciences.
