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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 |
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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 |