This Gifted Age

Written by one of the country's most influential scientists and science policy makers, "This Gifted Age" provides an insightful, multifaceted exploration of the impact of government policy on scientific and technological advancement. Comprised of Gibbons's writings from the past three decades, the book explores both the limiting and the liberating influences of government on technological research and development. 37 illus.

About the Series

ix

(2)

Preface

xi

(4)

Foreword

xv

PART ONE: 1972-1992

5

(176)

ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, AND SOCIETY

5

(176)

Physics Looks at Waste Management

5

(17)

David J. Rose

William Fulkerson

The Growth of Energy Demand: Can We Cool It?

22

(5)

The Role of Conservation in the Changing Economics of Energy

27

(10)

Roger W. Sant

Crisis and Opportunity

37

(4)

Environmental Implications of Nontechnological Methods to Conserve Energy

41

(9)

U.S. Energy Demand: Some Low Energy Futures

50

(27)

A National Energy Conservation Policy

77

(7)

William U. Chandler

Whose Path, Whose Ox?

84

(6)

Global Trends in Population

90

(7)

Reflections on Fifteen Years of Energy Policy

97

(15)

Technology and Governance

112

(20)

Holly L. Gwin

Energy Efficiency: Its Potential and Limits to the Year 2000

132

(16)

Peter D. Blair

The Federal Government's Role in Advancing Technology

148

(11)

Governing in a Technology-Driven Age: Progress and Problems

159

(12)

Moving Beyond the "Tech Fix"

171

(10)

PART TWO: 1992-PRESENT

181

(148)

ADVISER TO THE PRESIDENT

181

(148)

On Becoming Science Adviser to the President

181

(1)

A National Technology Strategy

182

(9)

The Superconducting Supercollider

191

(5)

Conservation and Progress

196

(3)

The Clinton Administration's Science and Technology Policy

199

(8)

Grace or Good Works? Reformation of Science & Technology in the 1990s

207

(13)

Biotechnology: Opportunity and Challenge

220

(9)

National Security Writ Large: A New Role for Science and Technology in a Changing World

229

(7)

National Information Infrastructure

236

(5)

The Future of Physics Research in Peacetime

241

(7)

A Year as Clinton's Science Adviser 1994

248

(11)

Plutonium and International Security

259

(6)

Technology for a Sustainable Future

265

(6)

Bringing Relevance to American Education Reform

271

(4)

Envisioning the Future of Science and Technology

275

(15)

The New Frontier: Space Science and Technology in the Next Millennium

290

(8)

Report Card

298

(11)

Energy for a Doubled Population

309

(9)

Environmental Stewardship

318

(4)

Fifty Years After Trinity: Working Toward a Happy Outcome

322

(7)

Acknowledgments

329

(4)

Subject Index

333

(12)

About the Author

345

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