Abstract
Comments by National Science Foundation Director H. Guyford Stever on riverboat steam boiler explosion control more than 100 years ago (C&EN, June 24, page 14) tell us that the basic idea of technology assessment is not new. The technical problems were brought under control by regulation. But projections of the scope of tomorrow's problems are vast. The outlook for society and its economy today can be made si look pretty grim if viewed from the dark side. The dire view taken by the Club of Rome and its conclusion that we must give up our faith in economic growth can give one the shakes. But a writer in The Economist has commented that if a Club of Rome had forecast Britain's quantum of travel, industry, and work force exponentially from 1850 it would have proved the nation must long since have disappeared beneath several hundred feet of horse manure. The attention and controversy now being ...
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