5/6/22: Guest co-host for reading discussion portion

    AGENDA AND MINUTES

1. Updates:

• MH. (Systematic) literal review of "progress studies" is needed. This term is typical of the field we are working in. In contrast PT's review is about technology forecasting. The difference is that forecasting is about the future and progress studies is about the present and past and influencing the future. Tech. forecasting includes work on extrapolation, for example, that does not necessarily address causes and social mechanisms, but in progress studies those things are a critical part. 
• VJB dissertation. Uploaded for final verification from advisor before public release.
• SD. 
• RS: Slides have been updated but cannot be updated until 30 days prior to the conference. WMSCI conference is in July and will be virtual. VJB will do the presentation, send to RS, who will upload it. Presentation is live or by video. Reviews were high enough to make journal acceptance possible later. This will allow adding 2 more pages if desired. 
• PT proposal and SLR. Continuing to progress.
• (No report requested) Women in space project. Semester ends soon so we'll ramp this up soon. 
• HA has noted the new reference suggestions but needs to review and if appropriate cite them in order to include them in the references section. 
• DB suggested dividing it into two papers, one with all the details and one with the core elements.
• Forum(s) to be determined after article is done. HA may be able to present at a conference if we get something accepted. 
• 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. 
• OK Acad. of Sci. has submittal deadline of Aug. 15.
• Feminist journal.
• JS contribution needs. 
• (No report requested) Th 11th Southeast Symposium on Contemporary Engineering Topics (SSCET) will be on Friday, September 16th in Little Rock. DB will list everyone as co-presenters.

2. Reading and discussion (co-host: JS)

• In-depth readings:
• https://ourworldindata.org/technological-change. JS led discussion up to the subheading "Non-linear technological change: Human genome DNA sequencing." (Vote average was 4.4, but we can always re-vote as we go along.)

Meeting ended here.

• Possible readings/videos that have not yet been scanned and voted on. Read/view a paragraph/minute or two of each and vote: Should we read it in more depth? 5=strongly agree, 4=agree, 3=neutral, 2=disagree, 1=strongly disagree. 
• Background paper(s) related to the women in space project. 
• https://www.planet4589.org. Scan one link deep from the astronautics page at https://planet4589.org/space/index.html. Don't read large documents through entirely.
• One of McDowell's *yearly* (not the more frequent news) reports, in particular, the most recent one: https://planet4589.org/space/papers/space20.pdf. 
• Goldin et al., The Productivity Paradox, 2019.
• 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.
• Future Spaceflight Meditations, a cosmist perspective, by Jiulio Prisco, physicist formerly with the ESA.

• Readings that we previously scanned and voted on that might or might not be read in more depth at some point. Listed in decreasing order of vote rank. 
• Already voted on: 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. the question then is: Do we search this site for another paper/papers to read? Vote was 3 11/12.
• Already voted on. 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. Vote was 3.9.
• Already voted on: 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. 
• Already voted on: 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. Vote was 3 2/7.
• Voted on 4/15/22: One of McDowell's update reports, available on the website. Link is: https://planet4589.org/space/jsr/jsr.html. We checked #804. Vote was 3 1/12.

• 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?