Feigenbaum was running around telling Congress that the US would "become an agrarian nation" unless they funded a big national knowledge system lab headed by hi

Feigenbaum was running around telling Congress that the US would "become an agrarian nation" unless they funded a big national knowledge system lab headed by him. At about the same time somebody was running around telling people we were going to be in a whole lot of trouble if we didn't train a bunch more physicists. A few years later we entered the era of the 40 yr old post-doc.