AGENDA AND MINUTES
1. Updates:
- Women in space project.
- DB added his graph. He will send RS the data in Excel to support a piecewise model.
- HA has noted the new reference suggestions but needs to cite them in order to include them in the references section. Perhaps we could all provide brief summary passages on a fraction of these new references for HA to incorporate.
- Forum to be determined after article is done. One set of possibilities is at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics - may have a conference we could submit it to. https://www.aiaa.org/events-learning/events has a long list of possibilities. HA may be able to present at a conference if we get something accepted.
- RS: WMSCI is supposed to notify on the last day of March, but a delay is possible.
- VJB: Will soon start scheduling a defense date.
- PT: Needs a couple more weeks to finish the proposal. We hope to publish the SLR portion later.
- Other updates: Here is a way to pick the next reading. Read a paragraph or so of each and vote on a scale 1-5: 5=strongly agree, 4=agree, 3=neutral, 2=disagree, 1=strongly disagree. Best ranked reading would be chosen to read next. Votes can be sent by chat, for example they can be sent only to one person.
2. Reading and discussion:
- The current plan is to review abstracts, or similar, of possible readings before we pick the next paper to read.
- One candidate: https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/394111 is a recent account of using DEA (which is part of TFDEA). We rechecked the abstract and read the first paragraph. Votes were: 3,5,2,5,4, averaging 3.8.
- Future possibility: https://ourworldindata.org/technological-progress. Votes were 4,5,3,5,5, averaging to 4.4.
We got to here, and might check some of the following 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.
- Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology. Let's find out more about it. We skimmed https://www.picmet.org/main/ and the question next is whether we want to read through the site in more detail. We can skim a little more before making a decision.
- https://www.planet4589.org/space/
- We found that the paper at https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-40896-1_3 seems like it might be a good paper for us to read.
- Goldin et al., The Productivity Paradox, 2019.
- 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.
- 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.
- MH suggests a short book called Future Spaceflight Meditations, a cosmist perspective, by Jiulio Prisco, physicist formerly with the ESA.
- 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?
