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Abstract
An office established to help Congress participate and plan for the consequences of uses of technology. It provided information on both the beneficial and adverse effects of technological applications. The Office of Technology Assessment closed on September 29, 1995.
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2 entry terms
- Office of Technology Assessment (U.S.)
- United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
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9 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.
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add UNITED STATES; research support by this agency is checked as RESEARCH SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; CATALOGER: Use NAF entry
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Previous Indexing
- Government Agencies (1968-1987)
- Technology Assessment, Biomedical (1980-1987)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. United States Office of Technology Assessment. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D014491. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D014491
- United States Office of Technology Assessment. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Technology_Assessment
- United States Office of Technology Assessment. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1684791