Abstract
Last year was a bad one for Congress' Office of Technology Assessment. Resignations, staff dissension, and palace intrigue shook the young agency as its board chairman, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, sought to bring to it a sense of stability. Now, a year later, it appears stable under director Russell W. Peterson, who last January succeeded OTA's first director and founder, Emilio Q. Daddario. During that period of turmoil, the House Subcommittee on Science, Research & Technology was conducting oversight hearings on OTA. The hearings took almost a year, but now the committee has issued its report on OTA's problems and prospects. In sum, the committee gives the agency an affectionate pat on the rump. It says, in effect, You're making it, boy. Stick in there. Sticking in there means giving Congress what it often needs from moment to moment and at the same time supplying a kind of cosmic perspective on what technology is doing ...
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