Candidates and Priorities for Technology Assessments, Volume 2

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Page 72 - HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND ASTRONAUTICS, SUBCOMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, RESEARCH, AND DEVELOPMENT, Washington, DC The subcommittee met, pursuant to adjournment, at 10 :20 am, in room 2325, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon.
Page 81 - Program of Policy Studies in Science and Technology, The George Washington University, Washington DC (July 1972).
Page 1 - Law and Director of the Program of Policy Studies in Science and Technology of the George Washington University...
Page iii - IEEE, EEI, the Task Force on Energy of the Subcommittee on Science, Research and Development of the House of Representatives, the President's Office of Science and Technology — the whole list is much longer — everybody is doing it But it seems to me that this is the most solid reason for the conference: with so many agencies studying the problem, they are bound to end up taking in each others
Page iii - ERTS program and by the Office of Exploratory Research and Problem Assessment of the National Science Foundation.
Page 1 - ... subjects for assessment and provided preliminary evaluation of their comparative priorities and urgency. Fifty-four interviews were held with officials in nine Agencies, and 206 questionnaires were sent to officials in 24 Agencies. Candidate technologies most often proposed fell in the areas of transportation, energy, management, automation and computers, communications, resource use. health care, policy, and education. The study concluded that social impacts are less fully understood than physical...
Page iii - ... new or different ways, or to a new and greater extent than in the past. In other words, technology assessment...
Page iii - ... decision makers at various levels of government and in the private sector to allocate more wisely their limited resources in pursuing this new class of policy-related studies.

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