Front Cover ; Science, Technology and the Human Prospect; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; OBSERVING THE CENTENNIAL OF LIGHT; Introduction; THE GROWTH OF LIMITS; Part I: Judging the Costs and Benefits of Technology; Chapter 1. Phases of Creativity in Science and Technology ; GREECE AND HELLAS: THE THINKERS; ANCIENT, NONINVENTIVE, CHINA; ROME: THE ENGINEERS; THE PLODDING PROGRESS OF THE DARK AGES; THE RENAISSANCE: SCIENCE REDISCOVERED; EUROPEAN SCIENCE: THEORIES AND EXPERIMENTS; THE GOLDEN AGE OF INVENTIONS; CREATIVITY IN SCIENCE; ALL THE SCIENCE'S MEN

APPLIED SCIENCE AND INDUSTRIAL INNOVATIONSChapter 2. Science, Technology, and Economic Growth ; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT EXPENDITURES AND PRODUCTIVITY INCREASES; SOCIAL AND PRIVATE RETURNS FROM PARTICULAR INNOVATIONS; BASIC RESEARCH AND PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH; CHANGES IN THE COMPOSITION OF INDUSTRIAL R & D EXPENDITURE; RECENT CHANGES IN THE RATE OF PRODUCTIVITY INCREASE; PUBLIC POLICY TOWARD CIVILIAN TECHNOLOGY; CONCLUSIONS; NOTES; Chapter 3. Science and Technology in Global Development ; ABSOLUTE POVERTY AND THE WORLD'S ECONOMIC PRIORITIES; DELINEATING A REVISED GLOBAL ECONOMIC SYSTEM

DEVELOPMENT OF A SCIENCE AND RESEARCH COMMUNITYNOTES; Chapter 4. Energy and Civilization; THE ENERGY-CIVILIZATION EQUATION; TECHNOLOGY AND THE EQUATION; SCIENCE AND THE EQUATION; THE VALIDITY OF THE EQUATION; NOTES; Chapter 5. The Human Factor; Part II: Adapting the Institutional Frame of Technology; Chapter 6. Two Kinds of Light From Science; OUR HUMAN PLACE IN SPACE AND TIME; THE THEMES OF HUMAN HISTORY; THE HUMAN MIND AND OUR SOCIETY; MORE LIGHT; NOTES; Chapter 7. Technology and Socioeconomic Innovation ; INNOVATION AS A SOCIAL-ECONOMIC-POLITICAL PROBLEM

REALIZING THE PROMISE OF TECHNOLOGYENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; THE INSTITUTIONAL SECTORS OF TECHNOLOGY; Chapter 8. Public Reactions to Science and Technology: ""The Wizard"" Faces Social Judgment; EDISON NEVER WORRIED ABOUT MATHEMATICS; EDISON NEVER WORRIED ABOUT THE SOCIAL SYSTEM; EDISON NEVER WORRIED ABOUT GENERALIZED PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTS; NOTES; Chapter 9. Industry and Energy: Moral Dimensions of the Tasks; NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE ASPECTS OF MORALITY; MORALITY AND THE ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY; THE INDUSTRY'S POSITIVE MORAL TASKS; THE WEAKNESSES OF OUR DECISION-MAKING INSTITUTIONS

WHAT MORAL VIRTUES DO WE NEED TO CULTIVATE?THE WHOLE SOCIETY AS THE FOCUS OF THE INDUSTRY'S RESPONSIBILITY; NOTES; Chapter 10. Science, Technology, and Social Achievement ; INDIVIDUAL AND INSTITUTIONAL ASPECTS OF ACCOMPLISHMENT; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: TOWARD THEIR INSTITUTIONAL WELL-BEING; Part Ill: Human Needs and the Future of Invention; Chapter 11. Energy; IS THERE AN ENERGY PROBLEM?; ECONOMIC GROWTH, RESOURCES, AND ENERGY REQUIREMENTS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE: A PROTOTYPE HAZARD; DISCUSSION; NOTE; Chapter 12. Technological History and Technical Problems