Showing papers in "Technology in Society in 1981"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe a plant which was making 800 light bulbs an hour, of the type having a metallized reflector, and the components of the glass envelope were made elsewhere.

TL;DR: The crux of the four modernizations is the mastery of modern science and technology, and without them it is impossible to build modern agriculture, modern industry, or national defense as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the prospects for restoring moderate economic growth through tax policy and find that the future development of technology should be the primary focus of efforts to stimulate future US economic growth.

TL;DR: The NRC's performance can be characterized as slow, indecisive, cautious, and in a word, complacent as discussed by the authors, and this resulted from a lack of aggressive leadership as evidenced by the Commissioners' failures to establish regulatory goals, control policy making, and most importantly, clearly define their roles in nuclear regulation.

TL;DR: For example, in the United States, since 1973, US manufacturing productivity has grown at an annual rate of only 1.5 % ; the annual growth rate for nonmanufacturing has been well below 1% as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the value of human lifetime increments should be an important consideration in cost-benefit analysis of environmental and energy policies, in order to make decisions that can have an effect on the length of human life.

TL;DR: The earliest participants in venture capital investments were primarily wealthy individuals who operated either individually or through pooled family funds, with the Rockefeller, Phipps and Whitney families setting the example as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In spite of the strong political will of the two major prime-ministers, the input of a huge amount of resources over the past three decades, and a cultural background where the "brahminical achievements" of R&D are highly valued, we still have a long way to go before a scientific attitude and approach are instilled into our society as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, it has been argued that any realistic approach to safety engineering must countenance setting a monetary value on human life, which is taken to be a consequence of the fact that most practical engineering designs involve tradeoffs between safety considerations and costs.

TL;DR: A major body blow was delivered to the federal Solar Photovoltaics program when an FY 1982 budget of $63 million instead of $160 million was announced by the Administration in Washington.

TL;DR: The editors of the trade journal Chemical Engineering recently conducted a reader survey on engineering ethics as discussed by the authors and presented a set of nine hypothetical cases illustrating some ethical dilemmas that arise in the practice of engineering.

TL;DR: On June 6, 1981 the Executive Committee of IEEE gave final approval to formation of the JGEE Society on Social Impliquions of Technology (SS1T), This action, in response to a membership petition circulated by CSIT in 1980 was the culmination of effort extending over many years as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the specific policy-level issues of R&D venture analysis for energy technologies, but they appear that this methodology may be appropriate for a variety of public-policy decisions.