Focusing on the role of Talking Books and Their Influence on the Demand of Braille Literature.
Scientific and technical progress is correctly refer red to as one of the most important social phenomena of the present time. It has been instrumental in the intro duction of unprecedented changes in all fields of human endeavour. Its action is increasingly being extended to the solution of a whole series of matters which concern blind people all over the world. However, and this is true in any field of activity, the scientific and technical progress becomes a powerful creative force only if social conditions are favourable. Its achievements depend to a large extent on the economic power of society as well as on political and other institutions. ( The problems of the blind are deeply social and this is why the role of scientific and technical progress 1 depends entirely on the social policy of a given community, RP* HI rIt is very well known that in the USSR, in the countries of socialist cooperation and in the developed P countries of Europe and Asia great achievements have bee...