For the Baby Boomers, born under the halo of victory in World
War II, and into the 1950s, one of the key themes was the promise of Science.
Electrical power—courtesy of splitting the atom—would be so plentiful that
consumers would simply pay a flat monthly fee, and the discovery of the
structure of DNA meant (somehow, although this was never fully explained) that
a cure for cancer was just beyond the horizon. The successful rollout of the
Salk/Sabin polio vaccines would further demonstrate the great humanitarian
power of Science, and its unblemished search for Truth…..To Read More….
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