On-line References - Lloyd Etheredge

References

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This page contains several references, cited in my papers, that are especially useful re the Internet, out-of-print, or difficult to locate on-line. And also a reference copy of the excellent annotated bibliography of Harold Lasswell's work prepared by Rodney Muth et al., and published in 1990 by New Haven Press and Kluwer Academic Publishers. And misc. items.

Harold D. Lasswell: An Annotated Bibliography

Papers - Communication Technology & Projects

"Executive Summary" from Telegeography 2001, Telegeography, Inc. (2000).
"Overview" from International Bandwidth 2000, Telegeography, Inc. (2000).
"What is the Internet (and What Makes it Work) by Robert E. Kahn and Vinton G. Cerf. (1999).
Wall Street Journal article of 12/3/99 announcing the new global purchasing cooperatives to reduce costs and operate $300 billion+/year of sales for the international automobile industry. Illustrates the current availability of the on-line technology for global purchasing cooperatives, managed via a Web-site, for basic Internet equipment and communication services and for health, education, and science in UDCs. [See our initial briefing in 1997 to the World Bank's Global Knowledge Management working group, "Overview: A Purchasing Cooperative for Health, Science, and Education for UDCs" cited on the home page.]
"The Orbiting Internet: Fiber in the Sky", by John Montgomery, Byte, November, 1997.
"How the Internet Will Replace Broadcasting" by Edumund X. DeJesus. Byte, February, 1996.
Excerpts from a business plan for a Science and Engineering Television Network developed by Gary Welz with support from the Sloan Foundation. See also the advertising revenue estimates in our working paper on income-producing options (cited on the home page).
www.comfm.com, an international guide to on-line radio, television, and webcam broadcasting on the Internet. See also www.broadcast.com, a leading commercial Webcaster in the US and www.researchchannel.com a (still, largely domestic) non-profit startup for a research channel among major US universities that provides a range of options, from low bandwidth Internet to high definition television.

Other References

Letter from Richard Atkinson of March 20, 1996 withdrawing the UC system from further efforts (supported by his predecessor, Jack Peltason) to renew ideological testing. As the letter indicates, it was circulated widely in the UC system. His "social scientists should accept their place" stance was background to his selection as Director of the behavioral science and public policy work at the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council (DBASSE)- a post which he still holds in 2005.
A cover letter (2004) and documents concerning the public reputation and background of Mrs. Barbara Torrey - whose views of disruptive social science researchers appear to be "make them shut up." The two Washington Post stories describe a lawsuit against Mrs. Torrey, who reportedly signed false documents and tried to fire a subordinate (a young, 29-year-old GS-11 woman analyst) who had been told to shut up and not answer press inquiries about the government's unclassified estimates of casualties in the first US-Iraq war. The suit against Mrs. Torrey was supported by the American Civil Liberties Union, Covington & Burling, and the American Statistical Association's Committee on Scientific Freedom and Human Rights. Against the background of this behavior and public reputation, Mrs. Torrey was selected by Dr. Bruce Alberts et al. to supervise the social science staff and projects at the NRC in the 1990s and the early years of this decade. (An odd choice, unless one wanted to have a chilling effect.)
Letter from Angela Phillips Diaz of October 26, 1995 summarizing the decision of the President's Committee of Advisers on Science and Technology not to renew progress in empirically-based v. belief-based social and economic policy.
Letter to Duncan Luce of July 31, 1992 exploring alternatives to the impasse and suggesting only a low probability that John Ferejohn would be sent to the guillotine if he directed a Michelson-Morley project for the National Academy. Suggested the possibility of ". . .a nightmare scenario. Perhaps, all along, Congressional leaders and the public have truly wanted the best forthright, honest, and politically-independent advice of our best scientists." And that a politically-neutered National Academy of Sciences was unworthy of free men and women.
Letter to Duncan Luce of June 2, 1992 suggesting that it is in everybody's interest to know how the economy operates. And noting $400+ billion annual deficits and urging a cost-benefit analysis of continued silence.
Letter from R. Duncan Luce of May 14, 1992 claiming that political unacceptability would continue to block any scientific recommendation by the National Academy of Sciences to test (fairly) the empirical assumptions of Reaganomics & the political Right.

Humor

Two statisticians were traveling in an airplane from LA to New York. About an hour into the flight, the pilot announces that they have lost an engine, but don't worry, there are three left. However, instead of 5 hours it will take 7 hours to get to New York. A little later, he announced that a second engine failed, and they still had two left, but it would take 10 hours to get to New York. Somewhat later, the pilot again came on the intercom and announced that a third engine had died. Never fear, he said, because the plane could fly on a single engine. However, it would now take 18 hours to get to New York. At this point, the first statistician turns to the second statistician and says, "Gee, I don’t like the look of those numbers. If that fourth engine goes, we could be up here forever!”
The most famous cartoon from the early years of the Internet:

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