Under the U.S. Constitution for 21st Century and Beyond, a new Department for Advancing Science and Technology (expanding the National Science Foundation) will be established to accelerate scientific and technological progress.
In accordance with mandates of the new Constitution, the Department for Advancing Science and Technology will be responsible for:
- Annual assessment of the scientific and technological requirements of the nation and its citizens
- Determining goals and priorities to fulfill present and future requirements of the nation
- Coordinating government and non-government research to minimize duplication and redundancy in research and development; to promote maximum, equitable utilization and benefit of scientific and technological resources, and to accelerate scientific and technological progress
- Accelerating transformation of scientific knowledge, development, and breakthroughs into operating technological systems for maximum progress and benefit of citizens and the nation
- Promoting interchange and coordination of knowledge, technology, materials, equipment, personnel, and other resources among government, non-government, and other institutions and citizens
- Protecting rights of inventors, artists, writers, and other creators and producers to assure equitable sharing of benefits and rewards resulting from development and utilization of better products and services. To ensure incentive for scientists, inventors, writers, artists, technologists, and other relevant creators, protective patent, copyright, trademark, and other ownership safeguards for creators and entrepreneurs will provide benefit and reward from their work
- Offering counsel, technical assistance, guidance, and, as necessary, financial support to government, non-government, and other institutions and persons for advancing scientific and technological progress
Background….
During
the 18th to 20th centuries, the nation
progressed from an undeveloped frontier…to a
predominantly agricultural system…to an
industrial, manufacturing, and urbanized
society…to an era of science, technology, global
telecommunications, and space exploration.
Written more than 200 years ago, however, the outdated Constitution severely handicaps the nation's efforts to provide the creative, automated, innovative systems necessary for maximum progress in science and technology, including:
- Failure to effectively manage, develop, coordinate, and utilize national resources for science and technology and equitably distribute benefits to citizens
- Over-concentration of resource utilization for military, industrial, and commercial purposes--subjugating needs and requirements of citizens for better living
- Widespread duplication and redundancy in research, development, and utilization in science and technology--wasting invaluable non-government and government assets
- Pollution of the environment and waste of resources
- Multi-billion dollar investment in nuclear, chemical, and biological systems, without sufficient regard to disposal of waste, as well as potentially dangerous impact upon populaces and environment
- Failure to allocate priority to development and management of potential resources such as solar, water, wind, and other energy systems, desalinization of water for industrial and human consumption, and other programs
- Failure to allocate highest priority to development and advancement of human resources
- Allocating highest allocation of national resources to militarism and WAR--not PEACE
GOALS of FUTURE: acceleration of scientific investigation and development followed by expeditious transformation of scientific knowledge and breakthroughs into operating technological systems for maximum progress and benefit to the nation.
Written more than 200 years ago, the old, obsolete Constitution severely handicaps efforts of the nation to compete in the scientific, technological, communications, space age