Science, Technology and the Human Prospect :Proceedings of the Edison Centennial Symposium

Publication subTitle :Proceedings of the Edison Centennial Symposium

Author: Starr   Chauncey;Ritterbush   Philip C.  

Publisher: Elsevier Science‎

Publication year: 2016

E-ISBN: 9781483139517

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780080255958

Subject: G30 scientific research theory

Keyword: 社会科学理论与方法论

Language: ENG

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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.

Chapter

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

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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

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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

NOTE

Chapter 12. Technological History and Technical Problems

CAN HINDSIGHT TEACH US TECHNOLOGICAL FORESIGHT

GERMAN UTILITIES: THE PAST AS A BURDEN ON THE FUTURE

NOTES

Chapter 13. Human Population and Ecology

ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE POPULATION EXPLOSION

THE ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE

A FEEDBACK SOCIETY: VITAL PERCEPTIONS

HUMAN HEALTH AND THE POPULATION PREDICAMENT

CONCLUSIONS AND DISCUSSION

NOTES

Chapter 14. Medicine and Public Health

MODERN TECHNOLOGY AND HUMAN WELL-BEING

A CENTURY OF DIAGNOSTIC AIDS TO MEDICINE

PHARMACEUTICALS AND THE CHANGING CLIMATE FOR INNOVATION

NOTES

Chapter 15. Urban Development

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY. AND ADVANCED URBAN SYSTEMS

SMALL BUSINESS AND SUCCESS IN INNOVATION

UNCONVENTIONAL TECHNOLOGY FOR THIRD WORLD CITIES

ENERGY ASPECTS OF URBANISM IN THE THIRD WORLD

NOTE

Chapter 16. Food and Agriculture

DISCUSSION

UPPER VOLTA AND IRAN: SUBSISTENCE AND SOCIAL DESIGN

WOMEN AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS: NEGLECTED ASPECTS OF AGRICULTURE

AGRICULTURE AND ECOLOGICAL INNOVATION

Chapter 17. Democracy and Technology

SCIENCE COURT PROCEDURES FOR COMPETING TECHNICAL PROPOSALS

THE SCIENCE COURT EXPERIMENT IN MINNESOTA

SCIENTIFIC DISPUTES AND SOCIAL DECISIONS

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Chapter 18. Communications

THE COMMUNICATIONS REVOLUTION AND THE QUALITY OF LIFE

NETWORKS AND COMMUNICATIONS ECOLOGY

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Index

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