Science, Technology and the Human Prospect contains the proceedings of the Edison Centennial Symposium. Organized into three parts, this book begins with the 10 essays commissioned from scholars and persons richly experienced in the management of...
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Science, Technology and the Human Prospect contains the proceedings of the Edison Centennial Symposium. Organized into three parts, this book begins with the 10 essays commissioned from scholars and persons richly experienced in the management of technology. Part I explores the costs and benefits of technology. Part II addresses the adaption of the institutional frame of technology. The last part discusses the human needs and future of invention. Front Cover -- Science, Technology and the Human Prospect -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- THE GROWTH OF LIMITS -- Part I: Judging the Costs and Benefits of Technology -- Chapter 1. Phases of Creativity in Science and Technology -- GREECE AND HELLAS: THE THINKERS -- ANCIENT, NONINVENTIVE. CHINA -- ROME: THE ENGINEERS -- THE PLODDING PROGRESS OF THE DARK AGES -- THE RENAISSANCE: SCIENCE REDISCOVERED -- EUROPEAN SCIENCE: THEORIES AND EXPERIMENTS -- THE GOLDEN AGE OF INVENTIONS -- CREATIVITY IN SCIENCE -- ALL THE SCIENCE'S MEN APPLIED SCIENCE AND INDUSTRIAL INNOVATIONS -- Chapter 2. Science, Technology, and Economic Growth -- RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT EXPENDITURES AND PRODUCTIVITY INCREASES -- SOCIAL AND PRIVATE RETURNS FROM PARTICULAR INNOVATIONS -- BASIC RESEARCH AND PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH -- CHANGES IN THE COMPOSITION OF INDUSTRIAL R&D EXPENDITURE -- RECENT CHANGES IN THE RATE OF PRODUCTIVITY INCREASE -- PUBLIC POLICY TOWARD CIVILIAN TECHNOLOGY -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- Chapter 3. Science and Technology in Global Development -- ABSOLUTE POVERTY AND THE WORLD'S ECONOMIC PRIORITIES DELINEATING A REVISED GLOBAL ECONOMIC SYSTEM -- DEVELOPMENT OF A SCIENCE AND RESEARCH COMMUNITY -- NOTES -- Chapter 4. Energy and Civilization -- THE ENERGY-CIVILIZATION EQUATION -- TECHNOLOGY AND THE EQUATION -- SCIENCE AND THE EQUATION -- THE VALIDITY OF THE EQUATION -- NOTES -- Chapter 5. The Human Factor -- Part II: Adapting the Institutional Frame of Technology -- Chapter 6. Two Kinds of Light From Science -- OUR HUMAN PLACE IN SPACE AND TIME -- THE THEMES OF HUMAN HISTORY -- THE HUMAN MIND AND OUR SOCIETY -- MORE LIGHT -- NOTES -- Chapter 7. Technology and Socioeconomic Innovation INNOVATION AS A SOCIAL-ECONOMIC-POLITICAL PROBLEM -- REALIZING THE PROMISE OF TECHNOLOGY -- ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY -- THE INSTITUTIONAL SECTORS OF TECHNOLOGY -- Chapter 8. Public Reactions to Science and Technology: ""The Wizard"" Faces Social Judgment -- EDISON NEVER WORRIED ABOUT MATHEMATICS -- EDISON NEVER WORRIED ABOUT THE SOCIAL SYSTEM -- EDISON NEVER WORRIED ABOUT GENERALIZED PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTS -- NOTES -- Chapter 9. Industry and Energy: Moral Dimensions of the Tasks -- NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE ASPECTS OF MORALITY -- MORALITY AND THE ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY THE INDUSTRY'S POSITIVE MORAL TASKS -- THE WEAKNESSES OF OUR DECISION-MAKING INSTITUTIONS -- WHAT MORAL VIRTUES DO WE NEED TO CULTIVATE -- THE WHOLE SOCIETY AS THE FOCUS OF THE INDUSTRY'S RESPONSIBILITY -- NOTES -- Chapter 10. Science, Technology, and Social Achievement -- INDIVIDUAL AND INSTITUTIONAL ASPECTS OF ACCOMPLISHMENT -- SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: TOWARD THEIR INSTITUTIONAL WELL-BEING -- Part Ill: Human Needs and the Future of Invention -- Chapter 11. Energy -- IS THERE AN ENERGY PROBLEM? -- ECONOMIC GROWTH, RESOURCES, AND ENERGY REQUIREMENTS -- RADIOACTIVE WASTE: A PROTOTYPE HAZARD DISCUSSION
