Predicting the Future of American Society

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Andersson
Keyword(s):  
American Academy ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Decision Tools ◽  
Futures Research ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Scenario Method ◽  
American Society ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Year 2000

The Commission for the Year 2000, created in 1964 in the American Academy of Arts and Science under the chairmanship of Daniel Bell was a key site for the domestication of the predictive technologies developed at RAND, in particular Delphi and the scenario method. Bell moved, in the years of the 1960s, from his notes on the end of ideology at the beginning of the decade to his conclusion that post-industrial society was a society prone to new forms of social conflict and in need of a new mechanism of coordination. Bell thought that he had found this mechanism in the area of forecasting and futures research—activities which might substitute a planning mechanism in American society and provide a new set of “decision tools” for American politics.

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 207-218
Author(s):  
Stefan J. Link
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Society ◽  
High Mass ◽  
Information Economy ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Mass Consumption ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Henry Ford ◽  
American Hegemony ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Post Industrial

This concluding chapter explains that American-style postwar “Fordism” was only one pattern in the mottled global legacy left behind by Henry Ford. It was not the least ideological effect of American hegemony that in the 1960s modernization theory could universalize this unique historical arrangement — what can be called “high mass-consumption” — as the target of successful development itself. Responding to the crisis of the 1970s and 1980s, social scientists added a next phase: “Post-Fordism” or “post-industrial society” signaled deindustrialization to some and the promise of a “service and information economy” to others. What united these constructs was a thinking in sequential stages, a preoccupation with national patterns of development, and a theory of causation centered on self-generating forces. It has become clear that cycles of industrialization and deindustrialization are inseparable from concerted efforts to restructure the global division of labor, that productive dual-use technologies are fiercely contested by states and corporations alike, that investment and disinvestment cannot be dislodged from contests over the terms of globalization, and that capital has no autonomous power outside of the designs and struggles of political actors.

Introduction

2010 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Stephen M. Mutula
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Information Economics ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Information Economy ◽  
Learning Society ◽  
Production Distribution ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Post Industrial

The ‘Digital economy’ is sometimes used synonymously with ‘information society’, which emerged back in the 1960s to describe a futuristic society that is highly dependent on information (Bridges.org, 2001; Computer Systems Policy Projects, 2000). Martin (1997:87) further associates the concept with ‘information economics’ by defining it as a society in which there is a growing rate in the production, distribution and use of information. The ‘Digital economy’, as term and concept, has been used in this book in keeping with ‘information society’ as espoused by Schienstock et al. (1999), who view it from an interdisciplinary perspective to describe: An information economy;A post-industrial society; The end of the industrial labour society; A knowledge society; An ‘informatized’ industrial society; and A learning society.

Some Observations on Pediatrics: Its Past, Present, and Future

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 67 (5) ◽  
pp. 776-784
Author(s):  
David E. Rogers ◽  
Robert J. Blendon ◽  
Ruby P. Hearn
Keyword(s):  
American Academy ◽  
50Th Anniversary ◽  
Bill Of Rights ◽  
Professional Societies ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Special Concern ◽  
American Children ◽  
American Society ◽  
The 1960S

I am honored to be with you today. I am particularly flattered that the American Academy of pediatrics-an institution with such a proud history of single-minded advocacy of the health and welfare of children-would permit an internist-turned-philanthropist to make this keynote address. I have long admired the Academy. I tend to believe that the secret of your remarkable success and the respect you have been accorded by American society derives from your unswerving devotion to your original mission. Many of our professional societies, while initially spawned to help address the needs of those who are their special concern, have come to be more preoccupied with the special needs and problems of their membership. Not so with this organization. Better health and better opportunities for children have remained your rallying points, and the needs of pediatricians as such have been distinctly secondary. This has not been lost on your admirers. I hope you can keep this refreshing idealism intact in our current cynical world. Your 1980 ten-point agenda for American children has a magnificent Jeffersonian ring to it.1 It is a bill of rights for children that deserves wide attention and circulation, and I congratulate you. So this is a historic and significant occasion. It is historic because it represents your 50th Anniversary.2 It is historic because we have just completed a decade in which many of the programs designed to improve the health and welfare of children launched with your help in the 1960s have borne fruit. It is significant because you are launching your lofty ten-point agenda.

Conditions for the Hi-tech Complex Development

2003 ◽  
pp. 26-39
Author(s):  
V. Maevsky ◽  
B. Kuzyk
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Central Bank ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Monetary Base ◽  
Complex Development ◽  
Bank System ◽  
Post Industrial

A project for the long-term strategy of Russian break-through into post-industrial society is suggested which is directed at transformation of the hi-tech complex into the leading factor of economic development. The thesis is substantiated that there is an opportunity to realize such a strategy in case Russia shifts towards the mechanism of the monetary base growth generally accepted in developed countries: the Central Bank increases the quantity of "strong" money by means of purchasing state securities and allocates the increment of money in question according to budget priorities. At the same time for the realization of the said strategy it is necessary to partially restore savings lost during the hyperinflation period of 1992-1994 and default of 1998 and to secure development of the bank system as well as an increase of the volume of long-term credits on this base.

Post-industrial Society: Structure, Features, Mechanism and Regularities of Formation

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 531-539
Author(s):  
Domakur Olga ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Society ◽  
Post Industrial

The paper presents the main points of the theory of post-industrial society, its methodology, the definition, criteria and features of the transformation of society from a pre-industrial, industrial to post-industrial society, the mechanism is defined and the legal conformities of post-industrial society formation are formulated.

Evolution de la gestion des chablis ces 50 dernières années dans la région du Bas-Valais (essai)

2015 ◽  
Vol 166 (3) ◽  
pp. 129-134
Author(s):  
Roland Métral
Keyword(s):  
Natural Hazards ◽  
Dead Wood ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Critical Assessment ◽  
Forest Dieback ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Mind Set ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Management Priorities

Trends in windthrow management during the last 50 years in Lower Valais (essay) A review on the measures taken in forests hit by storms during the last 50 years reveals the mind-set behind the evolution of management operations. In the 1960s, to remove all dead wood in a stand was perfectly normal due to timber prices. Between 1984 and 1990, vast sums of money were pumped into the improvement of forest structures facing the threat of a general forest dieback. As a consequence, only few of the windthrow areas caused by storm Vivian remained with no intervention. Vivian also marked the beginning of manifold research activities and practical terrain examination in windthrow gaps. Conclusions of this first research phase resulted in a critical assessment of the windthrow areas caused by Lothar in 1999, considering different goals than systematic removal of damage wood and the prevention of bark beetle outbreaks. Since the 1990s, retaining timber after windthrow has been lively discussed, as well as the maintenance of the protection function against natural hazards and opportunities for biodiversity. Several handbooks were developed and successfully used for the planning and defining of top priority measures in damaged forests that resulted from disturbances in 2011 and 2012 in Lower Valais. These recent disturbances together with the certainty that storms will recur led to the formation of a task force in the canton Valais, aiming to organize both logistics and funds, as well as to define management priorities regarding a next hazard.

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