Continuous process improvement
Those of us who are old enough will remember the 1950s, when “Japanese import” meant balsa wood trinkets. Several decades later, the first Japanese cars started appearing in the US. They were widely derided as…
Tag: utopia
Perils of Utopian Science for Societal Design
One of the earliest books that could be called utopian was Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward. It described a future scientific society, devoid of competition, in which everything was run scientifically. It was all to be…
A Partial Celebrationist Experiment
While I’d prefer that a Celebrationist experiment be tried because of pure enthusiasm, that’s rarely enough for groups of people to create great change. Great societal change seems to come on the heels of perceived…
Review: Misgivings Addressed and Answered
The research and writing of this book has obviously been a massive undertaking. Not so obviously, it is incredibly up to date with current technological advances. I started to read it as just another attempt…