Sentences with phrase «white heat revolution»

Wilson - White heat revolution, 1963Industry was modernising rapidly and in order to keep at the cutting edge, Harold Wilson argued that the government needed to help produce more scientists.

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In the bracing seaside air of Scarborough, north Yorkshire, he said in 1963: «The Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or for outdated methods on either side of industry.»

Now able to draw down astonishing material from online sources, Leckey can paste together footage from NASA's early failed attempts to launch inflatable media satellites in space — the technology that would eventually lead to our hyper - connected reality — with grainy colour film of crazily empty new motorways and snatches of Harold Wilson's famous 1963 speech in which he described a Britain being forged in «the white heat of the technological revolution».

What killed off the optimism typified by Harold Wilson's 60's slogan about the «white heat of the technological revolution» is difficult to identify.