Journal: Technological Forecasting & Social Change

Found 115 papers in total
Limits of ‘expert systems’ for political-economic forecasting
1989,
There is an apparently growing belief that knowledge can be codified into...
Mediacracy, mediocracy, or new democracy (where are the information age Jeffersons and Madisons when we need them?)
1989,
The indisputable technological star of our times is the field of information-its...
Designing complex technology: Understanding it as of, by and for people (some dilemmas and what to do about them)
1989,
The public tends to recognize that the planning of large-scale systems that deliver...
The anatomy of a computer application innovation: Computer Mediated Communications (CMC)
1989,
It is quite easy to observe that computers have had a major impact on our society and...
Technological leapfrogging: Implications for developing countries
1989,
Technology comes with mixed blessings. It considerably enhances human muscular and...
Transition from imitation to creation
1989,
It is commonly accepted that the most important strategies for industrialization and...
Modernizing public sector management: Fulfilling past promises
1989,
At the beginning of the Reagan Administration, the President announced project...
The politics of technology and the technology of politics: Issues for the U.S. Congress third century
1989,
To assist the Congressional Research Service’s study of the U.S. Congress in the...
‘Slip, Sliding Away’: Are we any closer to understanding the stuff of which social reality is made?
1989,
For all the proliferation of models, facts, findings and speculations that have...
Mankind after genetic manipulation
1989,
Frederick Rossini’s paper presents some scenarios for the twenty-first century...
Macroeconomic effects of robotization in Japan
1989,
Some previous researchers have developed an input-output model to forecast the...
Impacts of robotization on the Japanese economy
1989,
The introduction of robots leads to a reduction of direct labor, whereas it stimulates...
The impacts of robotization on macro and sectoral economies within a world econometric model
1989,
A world model of industry and trade is developed to evaluate the probable global...
The workforce of U.S. manufacturing in the post-industrial era
1988,
United States manufacturing is moving on a well-established trajectory of increased...
Logic of the Japanese general trading companies
1988,
In recent years some American firms attempted to create an equivalent of the Japanese...
A national manufacturing policy: An industry perspective on promoting sustained improvement in U.S. global competitiveness
1989,
The United States needs a national policy for accelerating and sustaining productivity...
Robotization in Japanese manufacturing industries
1989,
Robotization in Japanese manufacturing industries has grown rapidly and steadily in...
Robotization in Korea: Trend and implications for industrial development
1989,
This paper presents the result of a survey on the robotization in Korea as a typical...
Social movements
1989,
The new social movements-environmentalism, feminism, pacifism, etc.-are not really...
Passage on the rope bridge between science and technology: Tales of valor with virtue and vanity with vertigo
1988,
The decline of U.S. productivity and competitiveness has been represented as a death...
A search of a useful measure of tech. innovation (to make economists happy without discontenting technologists)
1988,
This article presents an exploration of the methodology and measurement of...
The Technology Efficiency Index: A method for measuring process technologies
1989,
A method for measuring technologies to be applied in the chemical processing...
Regional and national consequences of globalizing industries of the Pacific Rim
1989,
The nations of the Pacific Rim are characterized by a wide diversity of size,...
International comparisons of industrial robot penetration
1989,
This paper describes the international comparisons of industrial robot (IR)...
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