With the power to transform our world, we are responsible to think about what is going to happen to that world. We face the next millennium in a much different situation than what could have been envisioned 50 years ago. The Cold War is over and its funding can now go to social progress. The deficit does not cloud our discretionary spending as it once did. Advances in telecommunications and economic relationships are uniting our world.
Science is more international and cooperative.
But along with these opportunities come responsibilities. For example, if we are going to negotiate international science agreements we must have the funding to make good. The United States must be a responsible world citizen. Brown says we have outgrown the Vannevar Bush model. But in those 50 years, we used it to create a more sophisticated world.