Table of Contents

Introduction 1. The Aims of Progress 2. Technological Innovation Causes 3. Technology Policy 4. Technology and the Natural Environment 5. Environmental Policies 6. Summary and Conclusions

About the Author

Ernest Braun was formerly the Head of the Technology Policy Unit and Professor of Physics at Aston University. He spent years in Vienna as Head of the Technology Assessment Unit of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and is now an Emeritus Professor at Aston, and a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Technology Strategy at the Open University. Originally published in 1995.