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The Squares: US Physical and Engineering Scientists in the Long 1970s

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In The Squares, Cyrus Mody shows how, between the late 1960s and the early 1980s, some scientists and engineers who did not consider themselves activists, New Leftists, or members of the counterculture accommodated their work to the rapidly changing social and political landscape of the time. These “square scientists,” Mody shows, began to do many of the things that the counterculture urged: turn away from military-industrial funding, become more interdisciplinary, and focus their research on solving problems of civil society. During the period Mody calls “the long 1970s,” ungroovy scientists were doing groovy science.

Mody offers a series of case studies of some of these collective efforts by non-activist scientists to use their technical knowledge for the good of society. He considers the region around Santa Barbara and the interplay of public universities, think tanks, established firms, new companies, philanthropies, and social movement organizations. He looks at Stanford University's transition from Cold War science to commercialized technoscience; NASA's search for a post-Apollo mission; the unsuccessful foray into solar energy by Nobel laureate Jack Kilby; the “civilianization” of the US semiconductor industry; and systems engineer Arthur D. Hall's ill-fated promotion of automated agriculture.

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No. Panggil

502.373 Cyr T

Penerbit

United States : MIT Press., 2022

Deskripsi Fisik

423p

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780262369343

Klasifikasi

502.373

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

science
Scientists
Engineers
Physical scientists

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Pernyataan Tanggungjawab

Cyrus C. M. Mody

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