Technology and the environment: an overview

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The special issue of 'Technological Forecasting and Social Change' seeks to provide insights on the relationship between technology and the environment. It contains eight articles that address three key concerns. The first is the development and dissemination of technological knowledge and environmental awareness. Second is the pressures between existing technologies and the need for environmentally friendly technological modifications. And last, the development of sustainable development-based technological regulations.

Legislative Bodies, Technology Assessment, Reports, Environmental aspects, Technology transfer, Technological Forecasting and Social Change (Periodical)

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Dis the Threat Industry

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There is a need for a better understanding of the inherent biases in forecasts and assessments. The collapse of the Soviet Union after the Cold War proved that the US military, a apart of the so-called Western Threat Industry, deliberately overestimated the opposition by a factor of three. This practice, using fear to justify budgets, jobs and careers, is innate in most human organizations and should be recognized when confronted with assessments regarding global warming, the aging population and germ warfare.

Forecasting, Threats, Threats (Law), Business forecasting, Prejudices, Prejudice

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Working less and living longer: long-term trends in working time and time budgets

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Work time data collected since 1856 from UK industries indicate that today's laborers work significantly less and have a longer lifespan than their predecessors. This is attributed by researchers to the advent of new industrial technologies that improved productivity and liberated work time and the development of household equipment that enabled women to increase their participation in the work force.

Research, Work, Work (Labor), Industrial productivity, Life span, Productive, Productive life span

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