Abstract
This chapter focuses on America's space program and pursuit of technological supremacy. The episode, “I Shot an Arrow into the Air,” serves as a jumping off point to discuss contemporaneous critiques of manned space flight and the space race. Amitai Etzioni's contemporaneous book, Moon-Doggle, Gil Scott-Heron's “Whitey on the Moon,” and Polykarp Kusch's critiques are juxtaposed with science fiction magazines and Disney television specials that aired throughout the 1950s and 60s. “Brain Center at Whipple's” illustrates the costs of automation without compensating workers or considering the impact on the labor force. Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano, Michael Harrington's The Other America, and Congressional hearings with the UAW and Ford Motor Company provide meaningful historical context. The Detroit Riots of 1967 provide an enduring and troubling legacy of these postwar developments.
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