CONTENTS

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

1. TITLE.ESS    TECHNOLOGY AND THE ENHANCEMENT OF MAN

2. CONTEN.ESS   This table of contents

3. INTRO2.ESS   Temporary Introduction to the Essays

4. CHAP1.ART    In Defense of Science and Technology

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

6. CHAP3.ART    Resources for the Future

7. BASIC.ESS    Basic Science and Basic Technology

8. CAR.ESS      Computer Controlled Cars

9. CHICAR.ESS   The Chinese Can so Have Cars

10. ECON.ESS     Some economic propositions

11. EDUCAT.ESS   Notes on Education

12. ENERGY.ESS   Future Energy Requirements

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

14. DELIV.ESS    Automatic Delivery System

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

16. EARLID.ESS   Earlids

17. HOTER.ESS    The Home Information Terminal

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

19. LONG.ESS     Long Range Considerations

20. MONOP.ESS    Monopolies in Home Computer Service

21. OBJEC.ESS    Mathematics and Objectivity in Human Affairs

22. PLANE.ESS    Computer Controlled Airplanes



23. SHOCK.ESS    Future Shock

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

25. SOCIAL.ESS   Social Views

26. SPACE.ESS    Comments on the Space Program

27. STYLE.ESS    Towards and Intellectually Honest Style

28. TCLUB.ESS    Stanford Technology Club - A Prospectus

29. TECHNO.ESS   New Goals for Technology

30. TECIND.ESS   Technology and the Individual

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

32. WOMEN.ESS    Technology and Women's Liberation

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

34. 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

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

36. 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.

37. 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.

38. 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.

39. 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.

40. 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.

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

42. Summary.