CONTENTS

        This  is  a  current  list of  my  essays  in  technology and
society.

1. TITLE.ESS    TECHNOLOGY AND THE ENHANCEMENT OF MAN

2. TOPIC.ESS    TOPICS FOR ADDITIONAL ESSAYS

3. CONTEN.ESS   This table of contents

4. INTRO2.ESS   Temporary Introduction to the Essays

5. CHAP1.ART    In Defense of Science and Technology

6  CHAP2.ART    Is there anything useful left to invent?

7. CHAP3.ART    Resources for the Future

8. BASIC.ESS    Basic Science and Basic Technology

9. CAR.ESS      Computer Controlled Cars

10. CHICAR.ESS   The Chinese Can so Have Cars

11. ECON.ESS     Some economic propositions

12. EDUCAT.ESS   Notes on Education

13. ENERGY.ESS   Future Energy Requirements

14. CRIME.ESS    Technology, Crime, and Civil Liberties

15. DELIV.ESS    Automatic Delivery System

16. DIG.ESS      Research Applied to National Needs - Tunneling

17. EARLID.ESS   Earlids

18. HOTER.ESS    The Home Information Terminal

19. HOW.ESS      How are all these things to come about?

20. INTRO.ESS    Technology and the Enhancement of Man - Introduction

21. LONG.ESS     Long Range Considerations

22. MONOP.ESS    Monopolies in Home Computer Service



23. OBJEC.ESS    Mathematics and Objectivity in Human Affairs

24. PLANE.ESS    Computer Controlled Airplanes

25. SHOCK.ESS    Future Shock

26. SHORT.ESS    Some slogans with mini-essays in support of them.

27. SOCIAL.ESS   Social Views

28. SPACE.ESS    Comments on the Space Program

29. STYLE.ESS    Towards and Intellectually Honest Style

30. TCLUB.ESS    Stanford Technology Club - A Prospectus

31. TECHNO.ESS   New Goals for Technology

32. TECIND.ESS   Technology and the Individual

33. UNDER.ESS    U.S. Responsibility for the Underdeveloped Countries

34. WOMEN.ESS    Technology and Women's Liberation

35. DOCDIL.LIT   A test for what culture you belong to

36. ENERGY.PRO   Some Propositions on the Energy Crisis

        Here is  a tentative  list of  the chapters  of the  book and
their tentative contents.   Much of the  material will be  taken from
the essays and rearranged.   There is considerable redundancy  in the
present  collection,  because  some of  the  essays  were  written as
articles and  had to introduce  themselves.  Some are  incomplete and
there are inconsistencies.

title: TECHNOLOGY AND THE ENHANCEMENT OF MAN

37. Introduction.  In which it  is affirmed that the main  problem is
to give humans new possibilities.

38. Survival.  However, before  we can improve, we must  survive.  In
this chapter,  the doomsayers  are refuted,  although a  few problems
that have to be solved are noted.  Energy, food, minerals, war.

39. Productivity and Prosperity.  We  need more of what we  have now,
and we need to free resources to work on new things.  Ways of raising
productivity    in    manufacturing,    distribution,   construction,
bureaucracy, mining, and education are discusssed.



40. Improvements.  This is the main part of the book.  Transportation
(computer operated cars and planes and automatic delivery).  Computer
aided design and manufacturing to allow one of a kind.  To  allow one
person  to   build  a  ten   story  building.   The   home  terminal.
Communication.   Amusements.  Space   travel.    Safety  (rationality
therein).  The liberation of women.

41. Political, social  and economic issues.   Experimental societies.
Why economics can't be left to the economists.  Moralism.  The limits
of equality.   U.S. and the  underdeveloped world.  The  conflicts in
the world today.  What is fair.

42. Polemics.  The rest of the book is almost entirely  an exposition
of my  views and my  reasons for holding  them.  In this  section, my
respects are paid to those who think differently.

43.  Disconnected remarks  on various  topics.  The  very  long range
future.  Artificial intelligence.  Human happiness.

44. Summary.