Tangents of Technology, program 7, part b

Science

Technology

Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Aldous Huxley leads a discussion of the ecological effects of technology; a witty, urbane lament that the birds and the bees may be the tragic price we are paying for our conquest of nature. Participants include Ritchie Calder, Robert M. Hutchins, and Walter J. Ong. Mar. 16, 1962.

Calder, Ritchie, 1906-1982

Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963

Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Collection, 1950-1991 (Mss 18), Department of Special Collections at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library

1962

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Tangents of Technology, program 7, part a

Science

Technology

Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Aldous Huxley leads a discussion of the ecological effects of technology; a witty, urbane lament that the birds and the bees may be the tragic price we are paying for our conquest of nature. Participants include Ritchie Calder, Robert M. Hutchins, and Walter J. Ong. Mar. 16, 1962.

Calder, Ritchie, 1906-1982

Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963

Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Collection, 1950-1991 (Mss 18), Department of Special Collections at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library

1962-03-16

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Bulk of the collection donated by the Center after it ceased operations at UCSB in 1987. Subsequent donations by Harry S. Ashmore and Otis L. Graham, Jr. , which are found in their respective sections of the Administrators' Files, 1995.

Science, Technology, and Freedom, program 780

Science

Technology

Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Robert Sinsheimer, of the University of California Santa Cruz, posits that freedom has traditionally been regarded as the protection of the individual from the far greater power of the state, but that we must now consider some newly emergent dangers which threaten individual liberty, such as the power that modern science may give to a small group -- or even to an individual -- to threaten an entire society, not to mention the very societal controls that such capability may in turn call forth. Douglas Inquiry X. Dec. 8, 1978.

Sinsheimer, Robert

Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Collection, 1950-1991 (Mss 18), Department of Special Collections at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library

1978

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Scientists: On Top or On Tap?, program 456, part b

Science

Technology

Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Harvey Wheeler argues that the social impact of the modern world's intense scientific activity, as well as the rapidity with which the military-industrial complex seizes upon their discoveries, necessitates the "constitutionalization of science," which would put science under democratic control to ensure it works for the benefit of mankind. The Center's Neil Jacoby moderates a panel discussion in which Mr. Wheeler is joined by Helmut Krauch, Norman Peterson, and Lord Ritchie-Calder. Mar. 1, 1969.

Calder, Ritchie, 1906-1982

Wheeler, Harvey, 1918-2004

Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Collection, 1950-1991 (Mss 18), Department of Special Collections at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library

1969

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Scientists: On Top or On Tap?, program 456, part a

Science

Technology

Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Harvey Wheeler argues that the social impact of the modern world's intense scientific activity, as well as the rapidity with which the military-industrial complex seizes upon their discoveries, necessitates the "constitutionalization of science," which would put science under democratic control to ensure it works for the benefit of mankind. The Center's Neil Jacoby moderates a panel discussion in which Mr. Wheeler is joined by Helmut Krauch, Norman Peterson, and Lord Ritchie-Calder. Mar. 1, 1969.

Calder, Ritchie, 1906-1982

Wheeler, Harvey, 1918-2004

Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Collection, 1950-1991 (Mss 18), Department of Special Collections at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library

1969

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Technology and Democracy, program 45

Science

Technology

Economics

Sociology

Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Gerard Piel, publisher of Scientific American, posits that a blind adherence to the historical economy of scarcity prevents modern society from taking advantage of the new economy of abundance made possible by technological advancement, thereby creating an imbalance that threatens democratic institutions. Jan. 1963.

Piel, Gerard

Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Collection, 1950-1991 (Mss 18), Department of Special Collections at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library

1963-01

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Authoritarian and Democratic Technics, program 44, part b

Science

Technology

Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Author Lewis Mumford warns against the dehumanizing aspects of technological systems based on authoritarian principles, claiming that they are inimical to both true democracy and human life itself. His talk is followed with an extended commentary by Admiral Hyman G. Rickover of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Jan. 21-22, 1963.

Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Collection, 1950-1991 (Mss 18), Department of Special Collections at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library

1963

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Authoritarian and Democratic Technics, program 44, part a

Science

Technology

Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Author Lewis Mumford warns against the dehumanizing aspects of technological systems based on authoritarian principles, claiming that they are inimical to both true democracy and human life itself. His talk is followed with an extended commentary by Admiral Hyman G. Rickover of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Jan. 21-22, 1963.

Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990

Rickover, Hyman George

Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Collection, 1950-1991 (Mss 18), Department of Special Collections at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library

1963-01-21

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Bulk of the collection donated by the Center after it ceased operations at UCSB in 1987. Subsequent donations by Harry S. Ashmore and Otis L. Graham, Jr. , which are found in their respective sections of the Administrators' Files, 1995.