Re:NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts,...
by mensetmanusman on Friday April 25, 2025 @11:07PM
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This is great. I worked in building 13 and speak about V. Bush when I give talks to course 3 phd students occasionally :)
William B. Bonvillian taught me the bit I know about the topic :)
Re:NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts,...
by ricksunny on Saturday April 26, 2025 @01:51AM
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The very namesake building
I’ll keep sensitized to the STS Bonvillian name, I was unfamiliar prior, thank you.
That’s great to hear you sometimes give talks to course 3 students, as maybe some of them will go on to study lattices like: https://www.sf-uap.com/materials-science , for which study under what governance structure we may not know.
All the best.
https://thetech.com/2024/07/11/anniversary-vannevar-bush-pas...
the “unchecked committee of technocratic experts appeared to be his preferred agency governance form.” refers both to his utterances illustrated in his only biography to date, and particularly to the would-be May-Johnson governance structure he promoted.
Today we see the debate in full swing with discussion of technocratic elitism, (particularly this year more than last when I wrote the piece).
I wrestle with the pitfalls & perceived benefits a technocratic elite sans much representative democratic oversight. But make no mistake, a ‘Vannevarian’ world would appear very different to the current one we prefer to think we live in. The closest example in pop culture to what I imagine is the Fallout franchise’s Vault governance & managed society.