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Technological opportunities for humanity

Opportunities for new technologies for daily life based on present
science.  Criteria for technological advances to be useful and wanted
by individuals.
Obstacles to the implementation and use of the different kinds of
technologies.  Products vs. systems.
Discrepancies between what people want and use and what is thought
to be good.
Technology in fiction, especially science fiction.  Futurism.
  Anti-technological attitudes and movements.

The technologies considered include computers, transportation of
goods and people, medicine, utilities. space travel

exercise

Ask students for an essay on (1) How much income they want?  Is it
more or less than their families'?  What technology they want.

Technological Utopianism in American Culture.  Howard P. Segal.
University of Chicago Press, paper $14.95. reviewed in Science
1985 May 17 favorably by James Gilbert, U. of Maryland.  Looks
like a bad book.