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  THE TECHNOLOGICAL FIX MENTALITY / MILITARISM

In looking for solutions to problems, whether they be pressing societal problems or those causing minor human inconvenience, I look first to human technological ingenuity, and engineering design / problem solving skills. It is in the demonstrated ability of engineers and planners using technology assessment to find technology-based solutions to such problems that I put my faith and trust. Their efforts have steadily brought nature under human control and increased human comfort. (Note: waging modern war is the ultimate technological solution to problems essentially based on disputes between people.  Militarists exalt military virtues / symbols / following orders, advocate military preparedness, and are the first to call for war.)

Related Words, Beliefs, Background -- 55 entries

More to Explore -- Worldview Theme #46A: The Technological Fix Mentality

Technology   (from online encyclopedia)
Technological Fix (from online encyclopedia)
Technological Change (from online encyclopedia) 
Technology Assessment  (from online encyclopedia)
Technology Transfer  (from online encyclopedia)
Appropriate Technology (from online encyclopedia)
Environmental Impact Assessment  (from online encyclopedia)
The Center for Science in the Public Interest
The Technological Fix  (from Clemson University professor)
Technology Review  (popular magazine from MIT)
International Center for Technology Assessment
The MIT Joint Program on the Science & Policy of Global Change
Environmental Issues -- online reports from The National Academy of Sciences
International Issues -- online reports from The National Academy of Sciences
Can Technology Replace Social Engineering? by Alvin Weinberg
Will Technology Save Us From Overpopulation?, by Julia Sommerfeld, MSNBC
Environment, Technology, and the Economy (from Business Roundtable)
Managing the Risks of Technological Change (ch. 3 in book from UN's Human Development Reports Program)
Human Contributions and Responses to Environmental Change (a 2003 report from US Climate Change Science Program)
U.S. Government Science & Technology Web Resources
Science and Technology for Canadians: Environment, Air, Climate (many links)
Center for Democracy and Technology ("working for democratic values in a digital age")
Issues in Science & Technology--national academies reports
Engineering--Popular Programs (links to two dozen UCTV programs on this topic)
"Stem Cell Research: The Quest Resumes," by Alice Park (article in Time February 9 2009)
"Finding Energy All Around Us," by Bryan Walsh (micro-power sources, article in Time March 17 2008)
"The Farmer's Bank," by Bryan Walsh (insuring agriculture vs. doomsday, article in Time February 11 2008)
"Blueprint Brigade," by Bryan Walsh (article about Engineers Without Borders in Time December 10 2007)
"Green Motors / The History of the Electric Car," by Bryan Walsh (in Time, on web, October 22, 2007)
The Design of Future Things, by Donald Norman (review of this 2007 book)
Science & Technology Studies Links (from NC State University, policy research focus)
National Center for Biotechnology Information
Precautionary Principle   (from online encyclopedia)
Applying the Precautionary Principle to Nanotechnology (from the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology)
quotes related to science and technology

More to Explore -- Worldview Theme #46B: Militarism

Militarism  (online encyclopedia article)
Military Service (online encyclopedia article)
Military Periscope (online source for military news, weapons, and nations' armed forces worldwide)
The United States Army Homepage
Military Weapons, Defense, Aerospace News & Intelligence (Janes' website homepage)
Military Science Related Websites (links to hundreds of sites)
Military Training Technology (online magazine)
US Army Training & Doctrine Command
Today's Military: Military Careers
Canadians for Military Preparedness
Patriotism  (online encyclopedia article)
USA Patriotism: Military and Veteran Sites
Center for the Study of Professional Military Ethics
Just War Theory (online encyclopedia)
Just War Theory  (website devoted to philosophical study of warfare)
Links to Department of Defense and Military Electronic Journals
Center for Defense Information (a non-profit, independent monitor of the military)
The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic by Chalmers Johnson
The Technological Fix: Weapons and the Cost of War, by Alex Roland (a 1995 presentation to Army War College)
National Missile Defense: The Technological Fix, by Lawrence Badash (2000 article by UCSB professor)
Links to Military History
US Coast Guard: National Security and Military Preparedness: A Historical Bibliography
Stars and Stripes ("the independent news source for the US military")
"The Dark Side of Recruiting," by Mark Thompson (in Time April 13 2009)
"America's Medicated Army," by Mark Thompson (cover story, Time June 16, 2008)
"Taking Care of Our Vets," by Nancy Gibbs (in Time May 25, 2008)
"Dying Under the Army's Care," by Mark Thompson (in Time February 25 2008)
"America's Broken Down Army," by Mark Thompson (cover story, Time April 16, 2007)
"News Scan: nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan could harm ozone layer"  (June, 2008 news item)
quotes related to patriotism
quotes related to war

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