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CONTENTS


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

%. TITLE.ESS	TECHNOLOGY AND THE ENHANCEMENT OF MAN

%. TOPIC.ESS	TOPICS FOR ADDITIONAL ESSAYS

%. CONTEN.ESS	This table of contents

%. INTRO2.ESS	Temporary Introduction to the Essays

%. CHAP1.ART	In Defense of Science and Technology

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

%. CHAP3.ART	Resources for the Future

%. BASIC.ESS	Basic Science and Basic Technology

%. CAR.ESS	Computer Controlled Cars

%. CHICAR.ESS	The Chinese Can so Have Cars

%. ECON.ESS	Some economic propositions

%. EDUCAT.ESS	Notes on Education

%. ENERGY.ESS	Future Energy Requirements

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

%. DELIV.ESS	Automatic Delivery System

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

%. EARLID.ESS	Earlids

%. HOTER.ESS	The Home Information Terminal

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

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

%. LONG.ESS	Long Range Considerations

%. MONOP.ESS	Monopolies in Home Computer Service

%. OBJEC.ESS	Mathematics and Objectivity in Human Affairs

%. PLANE.ESS	Computer Controlled Airplanes

%. SHOCK.ESS	Future Shock

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

%. SOCIAL.ESS	Social Views

%. SPACE.ESS	Comments on the Space Program

%. STYLE.ESS	Towards and Intellectually Honest Style

%. TCLUB.ESS	Stanford Technology Club - A Prospectus

%. TECHNO.ESS	New Goals for Technology

%. TECIND.ESS	Technology and the Individual

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

%. WOMEN.ESS	Technology and Women's Liberation

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

%. 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

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

%. 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.

%. 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.

%. 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.

%. 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.

%. 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.

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

%. Summary.