2/18/22: Discuss upcoming VJB submittal, PT literature analysis

       AGENDA AND MINUTES

1. Updates:

• VJB paper/research. DB will review & update tomorrow, then send back to RS to finalize. VJB suggests only using one ref. with the same title. RS points out fine tuning can be done later after submittal. The most recent version was sent by RS on 2/14/22. 
• Women in space project. Will add updates to figure captions and then share.
• PT update. Finished initial compilation of relevant background work, finding about 40-50 or so papers.
• MH found a new think tank, The Institute for Progress. They address questions like what policies and social factors affect technological progress.
• Students needing projects? 
• Review abstracts or similar of choices before we pick the next paper to read.

2. Reading and discussion:

• TFDEA (e.g. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=etm_fac): Technology Forecasting Using Data Envelopment Analysis
• The Institute for Progress. They address questions like what policies and social factors affect technological progress.
• Future possibility: https://ourworldindata.org/technological-progress; Goldin et al., The Productivity Paradox, 2019.
• Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology. Let's find out more about it.
• A background paper related to the women in space project: see SpaceTravelMetric-b6-5-16\PapersAndPresentations\femaleAstronauts\relatedArticles 
• One of McDowell's yearly reports, available on the website.
• https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/techno-optimism-for-2022
• James Pethokoukis, https://fasterplease.substack.com/, tech foresight blog by former Jeopardy! champ.
• Chad Jones, https://web.stanford.edu/~chadj/, writes about endogenous growth theory.
• We found that the paper at https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-40896-1_3 seems like a good paper for us to read.
• MH suggests a short book called Future Spaceflight Meditations, a cosmist perspective, by Jiulio Prisco, physicist formerly with the ESA.
• MH suggests Pantelis Koutroumpis, The Productivity Paradox, a report.
• Some interesting videos are at the Kartik Gada channel such as at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuRX67CJhaOT98Jdjh85CEQ which we discussed previously.

• For general reference here are some generic questions about articles (and videos):
• What is the source?
• What is the most significant advance in the human knowledge presented in the paper?
• Why is that advance important?
• What important questions arise from the paper for future research?
• What important questions would it be nice if the paper answered, but does not answer?
• What does the paper present that is novel (no one else has provided that before)?
• What is the relevance of the paper to our satellite research goals?
• Questions from the group?