Prometheus. Critical Studies in Innovation

Prometheus

Volume 3, Issue 2

Issue date: 01 December 1985

Journal: Prometheus. Critical Studies in Innovation

EDITORIAL: WITHER THE COMMISSION FOR THE FUTURE?	212
WHY A COMMISSION FOR THE FUTURE? Ian Reinecke	215
LOOKING BACK ON THE FUTURE Robyn Williams	219
THE POLITICISATION OF FUTURES PROJECTS D.P. Green	222
GOVERNMENT FORECASTING AND ASSESSMENTS Vary T. Coates	232
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT AND FUTURES RESEARCH Ernst Braun	241
A COMMISSION OF CONTEMPLATION — OR OF REAL CONSEQUENCE? Brian W. Scott	245
HOW CAN SLEEPERS WAKEN — AND STAY AWAKE? SOME HOPES FOR THE AUSTRALIAN COMMISSION FOR THE FUTURE Michael Marien	251
CITIZENS LOOK TO THE FUTURE Lena Lupica	258
FUTURES RESEARCH — A LEGITIMATE ENDEAVOUR John Tydeman	263
THREE GREAT SOCIAL REVOLUTIONS: AGRICULTURAL, INDUSTRIAL, AND INFORMATIONAL Yoneji Masuda	269
BIOTECHNOLOGY IN JAPAN: INDUSTRIAL POLICY AND FACTOR MARKET DISTORTIONS Gary R. Saxonhouse	277
HIGH TECHNOLOGY, EMPLOYMENT AND THE CHALLENGES TO EDUCATION Richard Gordon, Linda M. Kimball	315
TOM MANN ON TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE, UNEMPLOYMENT, EDUCATION AND LEISURE: A TURN OF THE CENTURY LABOUR LEADER'S VIEWS ON SOME SUBJECTS OF CONTINUING CONCERN John Laurent	331
THE INFORMATION INDUSTRY, MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS AND URBANISATION IN THE ASIAN PACIFIC COUNTRIES: A RESEARCH AGENDA R. Yin-Wang Kwok, Brenda Kit-Ying Au	349
AN EXPOSITION OF THE INFORMATION SECTOR APPROACH WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO AUSTRALIA Hans-Jürgen Engelbrecht	370
AN ASPECT OF TECHNOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES OF THE UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT D. P. Doessel	387
ASPECTS OF TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT IN A DEVELOPING PETROLEUM TRANSITION ERA Michael R. Chambers	407
CSIRO'S COMMUNICATION ACTIVITIES — SOCIOLOGY OF A SCIENTIFIC GIANT Wendy Parsons	428
ONE CANADIAN PERSPECTIVE: CLEAR A CROSS AUSTRALIA Dallas W. Smythe	431
Patents, Innovation and Competition in Australia by the Industrial Property Advisory Committee (A report to the Hon. Barry Jones, Minister for Science and Technology, 29 August 1984) pp. 86 Robert E. Evenson	454
The Future of Urban Form: The Impact of New Technology edited by John Brotchie, Peter Newton, Peter Hall and Peter Nijkamp (Croom Helm, Kent and Sydney and Nichols Publishing Company, New York, 1985) pp. 374, $A44.50, ISBN 0-7-99-3255-3 Joanne Fox Przeworski	459
Technology, Work and Industrial Relations edited by Russell D. Lansbury and Edward M. Davis (Longman Cheshire, Melbourne, 1984) pp. xv + 253, $18.95 (pb), ISNB 0 582 68892 2 Peter J. Senker	462
Social Innovation and the Division of Labour by Jonathan Gershuny (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1983) pp. 191, ISBN 0-19-874130-8 Ed Snape	464
The Social Shaping of Technology edited by Donald MacKenzie and Judy Wajcman (Open University Press, Milton Keynesand Philadelphia, 1985) pp. vii + 237, ISBN 0-335-15027-6 Edward Wheeler	466
People, Science and Technology: A Guide to Advanced Industrial Society by Charles Boyle, Peter Wheale and Brian Sturgess (Wheatsheaf Books, Brighton, 1984) pp. xii + 265, ISBN 0 7108 0188 2 Paul K. Couchman	470
Agro-Research for the Semi-Arid Tropics: North West Australia edited by Russell C. Muchow (University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 1985) pp. xxii + 608, $50.00, ISBN 0 7022 1776 X Paul Brassley	473
Marginal Manager — The Changing Role of Supervisee in Australia by Peter Gilmour and Russell Lansbury (University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, Qld., 1984) pp. xii + 179, ISBN 0 7022 1686 0 Peter Graham	475
Rare-Earths Processing and Use by The Technology Information Branch (Australian Patent Office, Canberra, 1985) pp. iii + 32 A.L. Lougheed	477