Synopsis   Table of Contents   Preface by Jack Gibbons  Foreword by Al Gore

This Gifted Age: Science and Technology at the Millenium

 John H. Gibbons [1997]

Table of Contents

PART ONE:  1972 – 1992 

ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE AND SOCIETY 

Physics Looks at Waste Management (with David Rose and William Fulkerson) [1972]
Source: Published in Physics Today, Feb. 1972, pp. 32-41.  

The Growth of Energy Demand: Can We Cool It? [1973]
Source: Taken from an invited paper presented at the American Physical Society meeting, Washington, D.C., April 23, 1973.

The Role of Conservation in the Changing Economics of Energy (with Roger W. Sant) [1975].
Source: Presented at the Rocky Mountain Petroleum Economics Institute, Aspen, Colorado, July 1975.  It was published in The Changing Economics of World Energy, edited by Bernhard H. Abrahamsson, Boulder, Co.: Westview Press, 1975, pp. 91-103.

Crisis and Opportunity [1975].
Source:  Remarks before the 71^st Convention of the East Tennessee Education Association, Knoxville, TN, Oct. 31, 1975.

Environmental Implications of Nontechnological Methods of Conserve Energy [1975]. 
Source: Presented at the Symposium on Environment and Energy Conservation, Denver, Colorado, November 1975
 
U.S. Energy Demand: Some Low Energy Futures [1978]. Source:  Reprinted by permission from Science 200, 14 April 1978, pp. 142-152. c. 1978 American Association for the Advancement of Science.

A National Energy Conservation Policy (with William U. Chandler) [1978].
Source:  Written with William U. Chandler and originally published in Current History,  July/August 1978, pp. 13-15, 34.

Whose Path, Whose Ox? [1979]. 
Source:  Represents a discussion paper, based on remarks presented to the Energy Research and Development Subcommittee, Aspen Institute, Aspen, Colorado, January 1979.

Global Trends in Population [1982]. 
Source:  Testimony before the Senate Committee  on Foreign Relations, Washington, D.C., June 23, 1982.

Reflections on Fifteen Years of Energy Policy [1985]. 
Source: Paper presented at the American Physical Society, Energy Short Course, Washington, D.C., April 27, 1985.
 
Technology and Governance (with Holly Gwin) [1985]. 
Source: Reprinted from Technology in Society 7, pp. 333-352.  Elsevier Science Ltd.,  UK. 
 
Energy Efficiency: Its Potential and Limits to the Year 2000 (with Peter D. Blair)[1988]Source:  Presented at the National Academy of Engineering Symposium “An Energy Agenda for the 1990’s,” Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center, Irvine, CA, May 11-12, 1988.

The Federal Government’s Role in Advancing Technology [1991].
Source:  Presented at the Symposium on Technology in America, Alfred University Alfred, N.Y., June 21, 1991

Governing in a Technology-Driven Age: Progress and Problems [1991]
 
Moving Beyond the “Tech Fix” [1992]
Source:  Published in the EPA Journal, September/October 1992, pp. 29-31.

PART TWO: 1992 – PRESENT: ADVISOR TO THE PRESIDENT

On becoming Science Advisor to the President [1992]
Source:  Official Statement Submitted in Little Rock, Arkansas, on December 24, 1992.    (Evening that President Clinton announced the Cabinet).

A National Technology Strategy [1993]
Source: Presented a the 25^th Anniversary Symposium of the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., May 7, 1993.

  

The Superconducting Supercollider [1993]
Source:  Statement prepared for the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, Washington, D.C., August 4, 1993.               

 

Conservation and Progress [1993]
Source:  Remarks before the Piedmont Environmental Council Annual Meeting,  Airlie Conference Center, Warrenton, VA, September 11, 1993.

 

The Clinton Administration’s Science and Technology Policy  [1993]

Source:  Paper presented at the National Academy of Engineering Symposium on New Directions in Engineering Technology and Policy, Washington, D.C.  October 7, 1993.            

 

Grace or Good Works?  Reformation of Science and Technology in the

1990’s [1993]
 Source:  Zuckerman Lecture presented at the Institute of Civil Engineers, London, England, December 3, 1993.

 
Biotechnology:  Opportunity and Challenge [1994
Source:  Presented at the National Biotechnology Summit, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C., January 24, 1994.

 
National Security Writ Large:  A New Role for Science and Technology in a Changing World [1994]
Source:  Speech delivered to the Council on Foreign Relations, New York, NY, March 1, 1994.

  
National Information Infrastructure [1994]

Source:  Remarks presented at the ARPA, Advanced Research Projects Agency, U.S. Department of Defense)  High Performance Computing and Communications Symposium, Washington, D.C.  March 15, 1994.

  
The Future of Physics Research in Peacetime [1994]
Source:  From a presentation at the American Physical Science Meeting, Special Session on Science Policy, Washington, D.C., March 23, 1994.

 
A Year as Clinton’s Science Advisor 1994 [1994]
Source:  Interview by Wil Lepkowski, reprinted with permission from Chemical and Engineering News, 72, April 11, 1994, pp. 20-26.

 
Plutonium and International Security [1994]

Source:  Speech delivered to the Public Forum on Plutonium Disposition, Leesburg, VA, May 4, 1994.

 
Technology for a Sustainable Future [1994]
Source:  Speech presented at the Environmental Industry Summit, Environmental Business Council of the United States, U.S. Environmental Export Council (EBC/ETTC), September 12, 1994.

 
Bringing Relevance to American Education Reform [1994]

Source:  Taken from a presentation at the 10^th Anniversary Conference of the Industry Initiatives for Science and Math Education (IISME), San Jose, California, October 14, 1994.

  
Envisioning the Future of Science and Technology [1995]

Source:  Statement submitted before the Committee on Science, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., January 6, 1995.

 
The New Frontier: Space Science and Technology in the Next Millennium [1995]

 Source:  Wernher von Braun (Public) Lecture presented at the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., March 22, 1995.

 
Report Card [1995]
Source:  Speech delivered at the American Association for the Advancement of Science   (AAAS) Annual R&D Policy Colloquium, Washington, D.C., April 12, 1995.

Energy for a Doubled Population [1995]

Source:  Published in the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 139, 3 (1995), pp. 256-264.

 
Environmental Stewardship [1995]

Source:   Remarks delivered at Grace Episcopal Church, The Plains, VA, on the occasion of Earth Sunday, 1995.

 
Fifty Years After Trinity: Working Toward a Happy Outcome [1995]

Source:  Speech presented at the Symposium on the 50^th Anniversary of  the Trinity Test. Co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Academy of Sciences, Washingon, D.C., July 16, 1995.