Satellite Power System (SPS) Centralization/Decentralization

摘要

Here are the 10 most important ideas in this paper:n1. After 150 years of increasing centralization, America has moved into a process of decentralization that will have a profound impact on all public policy decisions.n2. The states are assuming more power.n3. Communities and neighborhoods are increasing their influence and control.n4. The emerging regional concerns of the mid-70's are developing into a militant new regionalism not expe¬rienced in the U.S. since the Civil War.n5. There is a growing jurisdictional diversity in approaches to solving problems, including those involving energy.n6. In government and technology, the phenomenon of appropriate scale is replacing economies of scale.n7. The referenda or initiative process is a power¬ful trend, and in all sections of the country we will be submitting new questions (not excluding SPS) to this poli¬tical process.n8. The introduction of every new technology is necessarily accompanied by a compensating human response or the new technology is rejected.n9. The society is in a profound shift from an indus¬trial to an information society, which, among other things, accounts for the sharp decline of labor unions and national political parties.n10. The U.S. is becoming more and more a multiple-option society and less and less an either/or society.