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Think Big
In the decade of the 1970s, New Zealand reacted to a faltering economy, the rising price of oil and a surplus of natural gas with a set of State decisions to construct major energy projects. These projects took shape in the 1980s.
Collectively they were known as “Think Big”.
From a technology viewpoint, Think Big can be seen as the final playing out of a scenario that had its origins in the speculations of technologists who contributed in 1918 to the New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology.
It was a dramatic end to attempts to create economic well being by using technology to capitalise on indigenous resources.
Think Big concluded a technological era lasting most of the century that would give way to an information age based on the microchip.
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