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The specifics of technology matter.  It's no just a commodity.

Is there something left to invent?

Post-industrial society or merely the growth of bureaucracy?

Brown-nosing the third world.

The fifth generation?

Human motivation.  The psychologists don't ask the right questions.

AI

Computers in the home.

Future shock?

Centre Mondial de quoi?

Weizenbaum

Nuclear energy is still it.

The long term

The space program

Utility on nuclear explosions.  (They threw that baby out of the sleigh,
but the wolves snapped it up and kept coming).

How many deaths has the Sierra Club caused?  Consumer's Union?
How many lives does it cost to throw money down the well?
Adventures in statistics

Defending the unpopular.  Shockley, Teller Beckman

The older generation. an appreciation

Review of Jastrow, Sagan Gould

The initiative in technology

Lowell Wood puff

Science fiction and the space program.  Jerry Pournelle and L-5

Is there a scientific basis for technological optimism?

The effect of ideology on scientists; there are only one-and-a-half
cultures.  Young scientists conform with the rest of their contemporaries.

Two-way television and other bubbles.

Robots and a Victorian revival.

The liberal imagination and technology - various coercive utopias.

Long life?  Not yet.

Literary exercises in pessimism and paranoia

Appropriate technology?

Products and systems.

The Japanese have been progressing normally.  The rest of us are retarded.

Eugenics reviewed.

Why isn't there a helicopter in every garage?

In 19xx Denis Gabor, the inventor of holograms for which he received the
Nobel prize, wrote a book called "Innovations" in which he said,

"It is not lack of imagination ..."

Alas, it was lack of imagination - probably considerably boosted by the
pessimistic ideology then coming into fashion.