Where Today Meets Tomorrow, GM Technical Center - Eero Saarinen's masterpiece

Since the start of the 20th century many miraculous scientific achievements have changed our way of life. Immediately coming to mind are the automobile, the airplane, motion pictures, radio and television, and the splitting of the atom. But this is history, and we are looking to the future. All of us should be interested in the future because, as the late C. F. Kettering put it, "there's where we are going to spend the rest of our lives." 

Today the world is undergoing a technical upsurge unequaled in the history of man. We can see it all around us—atomic energy is being harnessed, rockets are reaching farther and farther into space, and electronic computers perform years of calculations in a few minutes. Scientific man is on the move. 

These things are a challenge to American industry—a challenge not only to keep pace but to forge ahead—a challenge to bring new scientific discoveries down to earth and to apply the principles to creating more and better things for everyone. We must and can dream bigger; we must and can accelerate our pace from year to year. 

We in General Motors accept this challenge. Since our birth more than fifty years ago, we have pioneered in creating the new and useful, in filling the needs and desires of millions of people. We intend to continue this policy. We are meeting this technical challenge by applying the best talent, the best equipment, and the best facilities available to molding Tomorrow. 

And most representative of this thinking is the General Motors Technical Center.