Rethinking What Research Government Should Fund | Fall 1999 | Issues in Science and Technology

Commercial Satellite Imagery Comes of Age

Issues — Fri, 01 Oct 1999 04:00:00 +0000

Since satellites started photographing Earth from space nearly four decades ago, their images have inspired excitement, introspection, and, often, fear. Like all information, satellite imagery is in itself neutral. But satellite imagery… Read More

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Forum – Fall 1999

Issues — Fri, 01 Oct 1999 04:00:00 +0000

Science and foreign policy
Frank Loy, Under Secretary for Global Affairs at the U.S. State Department, and Roland Schmitt, president emeritus of Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute, recognize that the State Department has lagged… Read More

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From the Hill – Fall 1999

Issues — Fri, 01 Oct 1999 04:00:00 +0000

Congress split on FY 2000 funding for R&D
As the September 30 deadline loomed for approval of all FY 2000 appropriations bills, Congress was deeply split on R&D funding, with the House… Read More

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A Vision of Jeffersonian Science

Issues — Fri, 01 Oct 1999 04:00:00 +0000

The public attitude toward science is still largely positive in the United States; but for a vocal minority, the fear of risks and even catastrophes that might result from scientific progress has… Read More

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Global Growth through Third World Technological Progress

Issues — Fri, 01 Oct 1999 04:00:00 +0000

During the past four decades, the study of technological innovation has moved to center stage from its previous sideshow status in the economics profession. Most economists recognize that sustained increases in material… Read More

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Innovation Policy for Complex Technologies

Issues — Fri, 01 Oct 1999 04:00:00 +0000

The complexity of the technologies that drive economic performance today is making obsolete the mythic image of the brilliant lone inventor as well as undermining the effectiveness of traditional U.S. technology policy.… Read More

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Fall 1999 Update

Issues — Fri, 01 Oct 1999 04:00:00 +0000

Fusion program still off track

Since publication of our article, “Fusion Research with a Future” (Issues, Summer 1997), the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Fusion Energy Science (OFES) program has… Read More

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Creating Havens for Marine Life

Issues — Fri, 01 Oct 1999 04:00:00 +0000

The United States is the world’s best-endowed maritime nation, its seas unparalleled in richness and biological diversity. The waters along its 150,000 kilometers of shoreline encompass virtually every type of marine habitat… Read More

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Reshaping National Forest Policy

Issues — Fri, 01 Oct 1999 04:00:00 +0000

During his two and a half years as chief of the U.S. Forest Service, Mike Dombeck has received considerable attention and praise from some unlikely sources. On June 15 this year, for… Read More

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Archives – Fall 1999

Issues — Fri, 01 Oct 1999 04:00:00 +0000

Photo: National Science Foundation
Drilling a Hole in the Ocean
Project Mohole represented, as one historian described it, the earth sciences’ answer to the space program. The project involved a highly ambitious… Read More

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