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TECHNOLOGY 2001: THE FUTURE OF COMPUTING AND COM MUNICATIONS. Edited by Derek Leebaert. Cambridge: MIT Press,

1991, 392 pp. $29.95. Leebaert asked a dozen technologists and strategic planners from the

computer world to peer a decade ahead. The result is fascinating and,

happily, readable. Many of the issues posed are by now familiar?for

instance, the role of the mainframe when a thousand encyclopedias' worth of information can be stored "for the cost of a ranch house in Minneapolis." Less familiar is the image of interaction between people and machines that is so continuous it could no more be turned off than our nervous system.

And, Leebaert asks, what of our very definitions of image and reality: "What will happen if the data we transmit become as complex as our selves?"

FINDING COMMON GROUND: U.S. EXPORT CONTROLS IN A CHANGED GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT. Washington: National Academy Press, 1991,450 pp. $34.95.

This sequel to a 1987 National Academy of Sciences report, Balancing the National Interest, explicitly recognizes the trade-off between military security and economic goals in a world where the United States has much less exclusive control of technology. The Soviet Union is now less a target of controls than a critical participant with respect to the new target, the

proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The report calls for central

izing the control process within the U.S. government and, implicitly recognizing the force of economics, suggests the Commerce Department as the agency.

THE DYNAMICS OF DOMESTIC POLITICS AND ARMS CONTROL: THE SALT II RATIFICATION DEBATE. By Dan Caldwell. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1991, 234 pp. $32.95.

SALT IPs fate is of more than passing interest now that its successor, START I, looks like it too might have trouble being ratified, if it ever gets negotiated. Caldwell's telling of the story is detailed and he lets his interviewees speak for themselves (perhaps a little too much so). Negotia tors in the Bush administration must surely agree with one of his conclu sions: just as Carter should have quickly finished SALT II and ratified it as

Nixon's treaty, so should they have quickly finished and ratified START I as Reagan's handiwork.

CONGRESS OVERSEES THE UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY, 1947-1989. By Frank J. Smist, Jr. Knoxville (KY): Uni

versity of Tennessee Press, 1990, 336 pp. The title begins in 1947 but the story starts with the congressional

investigations of the mid-1970s. Smist makes good use of his wide-ranging interviews. The result is the most thorough review of oversight yet done. It is strongest in describing the tension between the executive and Congress,

but also good at portraying the effect of the different personalities and

styles of those who chaired the oversight committees. What remains less well understood is the political dynamics surrounding the oversight process within each house of Congress.

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