It has become a matter of course to us that even basic research in the field of nuclear physics is top secret nowadays, and that our laboratories are financed by the military and are being guarded like war projects. When I think what might have become of the ideas of Copernicus or Newton under present-day conditions, I begin to wonder whether we were not perhaps traitors to the spirit of science when we handed over the results of our research to the military, without considering the consequences.…And meanwhile there seems to be little hope that people will soon learn how to live together on this ever smaller planet.…It seems a thoroughly utopian idea that…the electronic brains, originally developed for the great weapons of destruction, would in future run our factories and thus restore the creative quality to man’s work.