2/25/22: Sampling of resources toward our next major reading, etc.

        AGENDA AND MINUTES

1. Updates:

  • VJB paper/research. RS successfully submitted it. Reviews expected by Mar. 31.
  • Women in space project. Figures have some redundancy. HA will discuss with SD. 
    • American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics - may have a conference we could submit it to. https://www.aiaa.org/events-learning/events
  • PT update. Cleaning the data set to prepare for writing the proposal.
  • 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. We reviewed a few slides and decided to find out if there is more recent work on TFDEA that we might want to consider further. PT will report next time.
  • The Institute for Progress. They address questions like what policies and social factors affect technological progress. We will try out a bit of https://progress.institute/immigration-powers-american-progress/ to see if we want to read it in full.
We ended the meeting here.
  • 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?

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