Download or read book The Future Postponed written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides a number of tangible examples of under-exploited areas of science and likely consequences in the form of an innovation deficit. Basic research is often misunderstood, because it often seems to have no immediate payoff. In an increasingly global and competitive world, where knowledge is created and first applied has huge economic consequences. Some areas of research are so strategically important that for the U.S. to fall behind ought to be alarming. Yet Chinese leadership in supercomputing is just such a straw in the wind. It is not just areas of science with obvious applications that are important. In the past, U.S. industry took a long term view of R&D and did fundamental research, activities associated with such entities as the now-diminished Bell Labs and Xerox Park. That's still the case in some other countries such as South Korea. The central role of federal research support means that sudden changes in funding levels such as the recent sequester can disrupt research efforts and cause long term damage, especially to the pipeline of scientific talent on which U.S. research leadership ultimately depends. Despite these challenges, the potential benefits from expanding basic research summarized in these pages, an innovation dividend that could boost our economy, improve human lives, and strengthen the U.S. strategically, are truly inspiring.
Download or read book Radical Architecture of the Future written by Beatrice Galilee and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architectural practice today goes far beyond the design and construction of buildings - the most exciting, forward-thinking architecture is also found in digital landscapes, art, apps, films, installations, and virtual reality. This remarkable book features projects - surprising, beautiful, outrageous, and sometimes even frightening - that break rules and shatter boundaries. In this timely book, the work of award-winning architects, designers, artists, photographers, writers, filmmakers, and researchers - all of whom synthesize and reflect our spatial environments - comes together for the first time.
Download or read book Revolution Postponed written by Margery Wolf and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1985-06-01 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Communist revolution promised Chinese women an end to thousands of years of subjugation, an equality with men in all matters legal, political, social, and economic. This book examines the extent to which this promise has been kept. Based on nearly a year of field research and interviews with over 300 women in six widely separated rural and urban areas, it gives us a vivid picture of Chinese women today - their day-to-day lives, their views of the present, and their hopes for the future. To date nothing approximating equality has been achieved: in working conditions, in pay, in educational opportunity. In the cities, and to a lesser extent in the countryside, women are better off than in pre-revolutionary China. But nowhere except in the rhetoric of the regime are they equal to men. Nor does the immediate future look much brighter, given the continuing social constraints, the government's controversial family limitation program, and the nature of the new economic policies introduced in 1980. So far as possible, the women interviewed are allowed to speak for themselves. Some take refuge behind government slogans, some are shy or wary, but a surprising number are quick to give their own opinions despite an ever-present government cadre. These opinions, combined with the author's astute observations on their local and national context, add up to a wholly new perspective on an all too familiar problem.
Download or read book The Future of Healthcare Reform in the United States written by Anup Malani and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Supreme Court's majority ruling in NFIB v. Sebelius upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the PPACA, or Obamacare), it was clear that this major shift in American health care provision was here to stay. For better or worse, the PPACA is now both a target for, and a constraint on, the next wave of reformist ideas. Driven by curiosity about how the American health care regime will continue to evolve in the near and medium term, Dean Michael Schill and Professor Anup Malani of the University of Chicago Law School commissioned fourteen essays from leading scholars of law, economics, medicine, and public health that offer predictions for the most important issues and debates in health-care reform over the next five to seven years. Essays are arranged in five sections. Part I, ACA and the Law, sets the stage with three essays on legal challenges and justifications for the Act. Part II, ACA and the Federal Budget, explores the variety of potential fiscal consequences resulting from Obamacare. Part III, ACA and Health Care Delivery, offers competing viewpoints on what the Act will ultimately mean for consumers of health care. Part IV, Health Care Costs, Innovation, and the ACA speculates about what the altered financial structure of health care will mean for the pace of development of new medical technologies. Part V, ACA and Health Insurance Markets, concludes the volume with a pair of contrasting assessments of the prospects for the new insurance "exchange" markets.
Download or read book Timescanner written by Phil N. Good and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2002-01-11 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this awkwardly-paced thriller the future has gone amuck. A Christian group terrorizes the west. Boy Scouts are listed as a subversive hate group. Whooping cranes come back with a vengeance and are eating the Ridley turtles. The poles shift and the North Pole ends up in Libya. U.S. capitalists seek political asylum in Russia. Most Americans are in a stupor from their implanted entertainment systems/GPS locators. NASA mistakenly uses centimetres instead of astronomical units in a major space program. Some outlaw Linton clones accidentally knock a hole in the fabric of time and space. Finally a war breaks out between computers that completely gridlocks all electronic communication. Rapture comes but the massive amount of electronic noise interferes with the transmission so that most people are missed on the first try. What the future holds is unsettling and perhaps dangerously familiar! But in spite of all this, we still have the right to life, liberty and to file suit for unhappiness.
Download or read book The New York State Reporter written by New York (State). Courts and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cases on Future Interests written by Richard Roy Powell and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bible and the Future written by Anthony A. Hoekema and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Anthony Hoekema brings to the study of biblical prophecy and eschatology a maturity that is rare among contemporary works on the subject. Free of sensationalism, he evinces a reverence for the Scriptures and a measured scholarship...One of the best studies on eschatology available.' ---Christianity Today
Download or read book The American Economic Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes annual List of doctoral dissertations in political economy in progress in American universities and colleges; and the Hand book of the American Economic Association.
Download or read book The Lawyers Reports Annotated written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Western Reporter written by Robert Desty and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lawyers Reports Annotated written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Preserving the Future of Long Island Sound written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization and Government Research and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Estates Future Interests and Illegal Conditions and Restraints in Illinois written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Inclusive Ethics written by Ingmar Persson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inclusive Ethics begins from two ideas which are part of our everyday morality, namely that we have a moral reason to benefit or do good to other beings, and that justice requires these benefits to be distributed equally. A morality comprising these two general principles will be exceedingly hard to apply as these principles will have to be balanced against each in an intuitive fashion, but also because the notion of what benefits beings is quite complex, comprising both experiential components of pleasure and successful exercises of autonomy. Ingmar Persson argues that, on philosophical reflection, these ideas turn out to be more far-reaching than we imagine. In particular, the reason to benefit commits us to benefit beings by bringing them into existence. Further, since grounds that are commonly used to justify that some are better off than others - such as their being more deserving or having rights to more - are untenable, justice requires a more extensive equality. The book concludes by reflecting on the problems of getting people to accept a morality which differs markedly from the morality with which they have grown up.
Download or read book Sociology of the Future written by Wendell Bell and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 1971-10-12 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concerns itself with the future of sociology, and of all social science. The thirteen authors—among them Wendell Bell, Kai T. Erikson, Scott Greer, Robert Boguslaw, James Mau, and Ivar Oxaal—are oriented toward a redefinition of the role of the social scientist as advisor to policymakers and administrators in all major areas of social concern, for the purpose of studying and shaping the future. This book contains research strategies for such "futurologistic" study, theories on its merits and dangers, as well as an annotated bibliography of social science studies of the future.
Download or read book The Future of Value Inquiry written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the nature of values, and the status of value studies, at the turn of the millennium. The contributors, nineteen philosophers from fourteen countries, introduce and defend an enriching variety of views regarding the present state and future prospects of value inquiry.
