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sored by the National Science Foundation and Pennsylvania State University concluded that “a substantial portion of the U S. population is technologically illiterate,” unable to make informed decisions about issues ranging from contraceptives to radiation.

Recognition of the problem is the first step. The responsibility for dealing with it — now and in the future — falls on all of us.

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