6/10/2022: Starting up the meetings again!

 AGENDA AND MINUTES

 

Fun photo: Biosphere 2 (near Tucson, AZ)

1. Updates:

• RS, VJB: Uploading opens on June 12, VJB will upload it using RS's acct. RS will also present a keynote there.
  
• PT: Finished draft of SLR on quantitative techniques for technology forecasting, sent it to DB.
  
• HA, DB: HA plans to draft the discussion and conclusion section(s) after which DB will do an iteration.
  
• https://plos.org/resource/how-to-write-conclusions/ gives some writing guidance for discussions and conclusions.
• Also the link:
• https://www.google.com/search?q=scholarly+paper+conclusion+vs+discussion+section&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS917US917&oq=scholarly+paper+conclusion+vs+discussion+section&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i160l3.15448j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
• 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. 
• Upcoming: 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

• In-depth readings:https://ourworldindata.org/technological-change. We finished it!
• Possible readings/videos that have not yet been scanned and voted on. Read/view 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.

• 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 score. 
• 5/20/22: We read the first paragraph of "A Forgotten Moment in Physiology: the Lovelace Woman in Space Program (1960-1962)", 2009, ...\femaleAstronauts\relatedArticles\WomenInSpaceRef3.pdf. Vote was 4.
• 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. 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. 
• 5/20/22: We read the enlarged font paragraph at the beginning of "Women's Place in Space Exploration, 1996, ...\femaleAstronauts\relatedArticles\WomenPlaceInSpaceExplorationRef2.pdf. Vote was 3 1/3.
• 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?