How We Got Where We Are
The author (John Burke) of the following quote, from an essay entitled Technology and Values, was educated at Boston Latin, MIT and Stanford and was, in order, a metallurgist, B-17 bomber pilot and prisoner of war, executive for Cummins Diesel, establisher and owner of an engineering firm, grad student and recipient of a doctorate at Stanford and assistant professor of the history of science and the history of technology at UCLA.
The essay was included in a volume called The Great Ideas Today – 1969 published in 1969 by Britannica Great Books.