More to Explore -- Worldview Theme #46A: The
Technological Fix Mentality |
Technology
(from online encyclopedia) |
Technological
Change (from online encyclopedia) |
Geoengineering
(from online encyclopedia) |
Technology
Transfer (from online encyclopedia) |
Appropriate
Technology (from online encyclopedia) |
Environmental
Impact Assessment (from online encyclopedia) |
Precautionary
Principle (from online encyclopedia) |
Technological
Singularity (from online encyclopedia) |
Carbon
Capture and Storage (another example of a technological fix; from online encyclopedia) |
Worldview
Watch issue #7: Geoengineering, Economics, and Restraint |
Worldview
Watch issue #10: Technology, Disasters, and Moralistic Apocalpyticism |
The Center
for Science in the Public Interest |
The
Technological Fix (from Clemson University professor) |
Technology
Review (popular magazine from MIT) |
The
Stone Age Institute: Technology, Adaptation, Evolution |
International
Center for Technology Assessment |
The
MIT Joint Program on the Science & Policy of Global Change |
Environmental
Issues -- online reports from The National Academy of Sciences |
International
Issues -- online reports from The National Academy of Sciences |
Can
Technology Replace Social Engineering? by Alvin Weinberg |
Will
Technology Save Us From Overpopulation?, by Julia Sommerfeld, MSNBC |
The
Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant
Technologies by E. Brynjolfssen, A. McAfee (review of 2013 book) |
Alone
Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other by
Sherry Turkle (Bill Moyers talks with author of this 2013 book) |
"Genome
Editing: The Age of the Red Pen" (cover story on the ultimate
technological fix from The
Economist August 22, 2015) |
"Technology
in Africa--The Pioneering Continent" (article from The
Economist Apr 25 2015)\ |
"A
Long Way From Zero--NYC Takes On Traffic Fatalities" (tech fix
approach to traffic safety, PBS News Hour Nov 23 2014) |
"Thorium Reactors: Asgard's Fire"
(article about promising nuclear reactor technology from The Economist April 12 2014) |
"The 50 Greatest Breakthroughs Since the Wheel" by James Fallows
(cover story from The Atlantic Nov 2013) |
Carbonic Computer--Cylinder Head"
(article about first computer from carbon nanotubes, in The Economist Sep 28 2013 |
"Labels
for GMO Foods Are a Bad Idea" (opinion piece about genetically
modified foods from the editors of Scientific American Sep 2013) |
Elon
Musk on the Hyperloop: His High Speed Inter City Transportation Proposed
Technology (Aug 12 2013 story from Bloomberg Business Week) |
"Stem Cell Therapies:
Prometheus Unbound" (article from The Economist July 6 2013) |
"The Cure for Obesity" by David Freedman
(about the rethinking/reengineering of junk food, from The Atlantic July 2013) |
"To
Save Everything, Click Here" by Evgeny Morozov (review of this
2013 book skeptical of technical "solutionist" mentality, on The
Guardian website) |
"A
Strange Computer Promises Great Speed" by Quentin Hardy (Mar 2013
NY Times report on Lockheed Martin's quantum computer) |
"One
Rat Brain 'Talks' To Another Using Electronic Link" by Jen Whyntie
(Feb 28 2013 BBC News report) |
"The
Robot Will See You Now" by Jonathan Cohn (article about the
future of computers in medicine from The Atlantic March 2013) |
"Has
the Ideas Machine Broken Down?" (article about innovation and new
technology from The Economist Jan 2013) |
"Technology and Geography: A Sense of Place"
(special report from The Economist Oct 27 2012) |
"A Third Industrial Revolution"
(special report by The Economist April 21 2012 issue) |
"Germany
Embarks on Historic Alternative Energy Push" (Mar 19 2012 report
posted on Common Dreams website) |
The
Quest by Daniel Yergin (Sept 20 2011 NY Times book review by
Dwight Garner) |
Biology is Technology by Rob Carlson
(2010 book from Harvard University Press, read excerpts at website) |
What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly
(read excerpts at Technium of this 2010 book from Viking/Penguin) |
The Nature of Technology by W. Brian Arthur
(2009 book offers theory on origins, evolution of
technology) |
Environment,
Technology, and the Economy (from Business Roundtable) |
Managing
the Risks of Technological Change (ch. 3 in book from UN's Human
Development Reports Program) |
Human
Contributions and Responses to Environmental Change (a
2003 report from US Climate Change Science Program) |
U.S.
Government Science & Technology Web Resources |
Science
and Technology for Canadians: Environment, Air, Climate (many links) |
Center for
Democracy and Technology ("working for democratic values in a
digital age") |
Issues
in Science & Technology--national academies reports |
Engineering--Popular
Programs (links to two dozen UCTV programs on this topic) |
"Artificial
Intelligence: machines for thinking" (review of books related to
this topic from The Economist October 3 2015) |
Singularity--2045:
The Year Man Becomes Immortal by Lev Grossman (Feb 21 2011 Time cover
story) |
The
Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil
(to some Kurzweil is “technology’s prophet" and this 2005
book is his gospel)
|
"Time
for OTA," by Ralph Nader (2010 article urging U.S. Office of
Technology Assessment be reinstated) |
"Who's
Afraid of Synthetic Biology? by Ronald Bailey (from Reason May
25, 2010) |
Power Trip:
From Oil Wells to Solar Cells by Amanda Little (more about this 2009
book) |
Tech.view
(weekly "column on the science and gadgetry of everyday life"
from The Economist) |
Automotive
Technology: The Future of Cars (article in Scientific American
Nov 2009 issue) |
Automotive
Technology: Plug in America (organization promoting "the shift to
plug in vehicles") |
Total Recall by Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell
(2009 book about "the E memory revolution") |
"Who
Needs the Grid?" by Lane Wallace (re: new fuel cell technology,
from The Atlantic December 2009) |
"Stem
Cell Research: The Quest Resumes," by Alice Park (article in Time
February 9 2009) |
"Finding Energy All
Around Us," by Bryan Walsh (micro-power sources, article in Time March 17 2008) |
"The
Farmer's Bank," by Bryan Walsh (insuring agriculture vs.
doomsday, article in Time February 11 2008) |
"Blueprint
Brigade," by Bryan Walsh (article about Engineers Without Borders
in Time December 10 2007) |
"Green
Motors / The History of the Electric Car," by Bryan Walsh (in Time,
on web, October 22, 2007) |
The
Design of Future Things, by Donald Norman (review of this 2007 book) |
Science
& Technology Studies Links (from NC State University, policy research focus) |
National
Center for Biotechnology Information |
Applying
the Precautionary Principle to Nanotechnology (from the Center for
Responsible Nanotechnology) |
Dictionary of Technical
Terms for Aerospace Use (comprehensive NASA effort, a bit dated) |
quotes
related to science and technology |
More to Explore -- Worldview Theme #46B: Militarism |
Warrior
(online encyclopedia article) |
Warlord (online encyclopedia article) |
Military
School
(online encyclopedia article) |
Military Courtesy (online encyclopedia article) |
Just War Theory
(online encyclopedia) |
Patriotism (online encyclopedia article) |
Worldview Watch issue
#42, posted 1/29/2015 American Sniper—Hero,
Yes or No? |
Worldwatch Watch
issue #41, posted 11/11/2014: Be Grateful: Ceramic Poppies
are Blowing in the Wind |
Military Periscope
(online source for military news, weapons, and nations' armed forces
worldwide) |
The United States Army Homepage |
Military Weapons, Defense, Aerospace News
& Intelligence (Janes' website homepage) |
Military Science Related
Websites (links to hundreds of sites) |
Military Training
Technology (online magazine) |
US Army Training &
Doctrine Command |
Today's Military:
Military Careers |
Canadians for Military Preparedness |
USA
Patriotism: Military and Veteran Sites |
Center for the Study of Professional
Military Ethics |
Just War Theory
(online encyclopedia) |
Just
War Theory (website devoted to philosophical study of warfare) |
Just and Unjust Wars, by Michael Walzer
(read excerpts of this 2000 book at Google Books) |
Blood
Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War by
B. Ehrenreich (read excerpts at Google Books) |
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy
Soldier by Ishamel Beah (more about this 2007 book) |
Links
to Department of Defense and Military Electronic Journals |
Center for
Defense Information (a non-profit, independent monitor of the
military) |
The
Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic by
Chalmers Johnson |
The
Technological Fix: Weapons and the Cost of War, by Alex Roland (a
1995 presentation to Army War College) |
National
Missile Defense: The Technological Fix, by Lawrence Badash (2000
article by UCSB professor) |
Links
to Military History |
US
Coast Guard: National Security and Military Preparedness: A Historical
Bibliography |
Stars
and Stripes ("the independent news source for the US
military") |
Battleland--Military
Intelligence Related Blogs (on Time magazine website) |
"The
New Nuclear Age" (commentary from The Economist March 7
2015) |
"Security:
Return of the Hired Gun" ("how private armies will
remake modern warfare" from The Economist Jan 10 2015) |
"Weapons
Makers: The Case for Defense" (article from The Economist
July 19, 2014) |
"Civil Wars: How to Stop
the Fighting, Sometimes" (article in The Economist Nov 9 2013) |
"Nuclear Weapons: Start Worrying"
(based on book review of Command and Control by Eric Schlosser in The Economist Sep 28 2013) |
"A
New Theory of PTSD and Veterans: Moral Injury" by Tony Dokoupil
(Dec 3 2012 article on The Daily Beast) |
"Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Death from Afar"
(article from The Economist Nov 3 2012) |
"Army
Suicides: The Most Alarming and Tragically Hidden Secret in America" (summer
2012 article post on policymic) |
"China's
Military Rise: The Dragon's New Teeth" (from The Economist
April 7 2012 issue) |
"An
Army Apart--The Widening Military-Civilian Gap" by Mark Thompson (Time
Nov 21 2011 cover story) |
"The Next War Will be Digitized" by
J. Fallows (Idea #9 in Biggest Ideas of Year in The Atlantic July 2011) |
"The
F-35: A Weapon That Costs More than Australia" by D. Tierney
(March 2011 article in The Atlantic) |
How
We Fight: Crusades, Quagmires, and the American Way of War by D.
Tierney (more on 2010 book) |
"Why Our Best Officers are Leaving"
by Tim Kane (article in Jan/Feb 2011 issue of The Atlantic) |
The
Secret World of Extreme Militias by Barton Gellman ( Time Oct
11 2010 cover story) |
"All
War is Local" by Brian Mockenhaupt (article in Oct 2010 issue of The
Atlantic) |
"Our
American Heroes" by William Astore (July 2010 essay arguing
military service does not equal heroism) |
"How
We Fail Our Female Vets" by Laura Fitzpatrick (in Time
July 12 2010) |
"How
One Army Town Copes With Post Traumatic Stress," by Tim McGirk
(in Time November 30, 2009) |
"The
Dark Side of Recruiting," by Mark Thompson (in Time April
13 2009) |
"America's
Medicated Army," by Mark Thompson (cover story, Time June
16, 2008) |
"Taking
Care of Our Vets," by Nancy Gibbs (in Time May 25, 2008) |
"Dying
Under the Army's Care," by Mark Thompson (in Time February
25 2008) |
"America's
Broken Down Army," by Mark Thompson (cover story, Time April
16, 2007) |
"News
Scan: nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan could harm ozone layer"
(June, 2008 news item) |
quotes
related to patriotism |
quotes
related to war |