Source: Brownstone Institute
by Sofia Karstens
“isenhower warned us: ‘Beware the military-industrial complex.’ Those words are widely remembered. Less so the companion warning: ‘Holding scientific discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite.’ That second warning may prove the more prophetic. The convergence of those two forces – the industrial machinery of power and the technological elite capable of shaping reality itself – is where we now find ourselves.” (05/19/26)