All Posts Tagged With: "technology"

How Environmentalism Disdains the Poor

Calvin Beisner is associate professor of interdisciplinary studies at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia, and author of Where Garden Meets Wilderness: Evangelical Entry into the Environmental Debate (Eerdmans, 1997) The late Julian Simon and other wise thinkers have long understood that economic development is necessary to enable people to afford a safe environment. That [...]

1Aug1998 | | 1 comment | Continued

The Wild West Meets Cyberspace

In 1848 Americans received the startling news that the vast territory they had just acquired from Mexico included tremendous riches. California, previously a distant, sleepy Mexican province whose economy was based on trading cattle hides and tallow for manufactured goods, was actually brimming with gold. There it was, just lying on the ground. Tens of [...]

1Jul1998 | | 2 comments | Continued

The Future of Money in the Information Age edited by James Dorn

Cato Institute • 1997 • 171 pages • $12.95 paperback If there’s one lesson that we’ve learned in the computer age, it’s that George Orwell was wrong: technology is not the enemy of liberty, but its friend. It was the personal computer, the fax machine and the telecommunications satellite that were central to the liberation [...]

1Dec1997 | | 0 comments | Continued

Technology and the Work Force: Work Will Not End

Mr. Jonas is the Herman Kahn Fellow at the Hudson Institute, in Indianapolis, Indiana. In his recent provocative book The End of Work, Jeremy Rifkin joins a growing chorus of social pessimists who argue that advanced technology leads to a concentration of wealth in the hands of “the elites” followed by wholesale unemployment for the [...]

1Nov1997 | | 0 comments | Continued

Star Trek and Collectivism: The Case of the Borg

Dr. Yates is adjunct research fellow with the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty and the author of Civil Wrongs: What Went Wrong With Affirmative Action (San Francisco: ICS Press, 1994). Star Trek is easily the most popular science fiction epic of all time. Over the past three decades, the saga has [...]

1Apr1997 | | 4 comments | Continued

Who Put the E in E-Mail?

Ms. Rogers is an attorney in Ormond Beach, Florida. I’m Enthusiastic about mail. I’m like the woman the Essayist J.B. Priestley wrote about who would have committed suicide Except she was Expecting a letter in the next day’s post. I not only love mail but I’m also a fervent Epistolarian. An Ever-diminishing breed, I know. [...]

1Sep1996 | | 0 comments | Continued

The Future of Capitalism

Dr. Bellante is a professor of economics at the University of South Florida in Tampa. The late Austrian economist Ludwig Lachmann was fond of saying that the future is not knowable, but it is imaginable. In The Future of Capitalism, Lester Thurow has put his imagination to work. His method is to use an analogy [...]

1Sep1996 | | 0 comments | Continued

A New Beginning for Freedom

In a time when so much rancor and rhetoric fill the air, I would like to bring a contrarian’s message—a message about exciting possibilities, a message that is hopeful, optimistic, and yet, I believe, realistic. I am writing about a new beginning for freedom—not just for America, which is thrilling in itself, but also for [...]

1Aug1996 | | 0 comments | Continued

How to Separate School and State: A Primer

Mr. Dewey is president of the National Scholarship Center, in Washington, D.C., a research and information clearinghouse on privately funded voucher programs. The views expressed here are his own. A forceful case for eliminating the role of government in education has been stated in the previous article. This essay will provide an introductory answer to [...]

1Jul1996 | | 2 comments | Continued

Why Our Company Needs Immigrants

Mr. Maibach is a vice president of Intel Corporation. There’s more and more talk about restricting legal immigration, but this could be a disaster for America. No one country has a monopoly on brains. If we are to remain competitive, we must be free to choose among the best people available, wherever they might come [...]

1Jun1996 | | 0 comments | Continued

Creative Destruction–Again

Whose heart bleeds for the virtually nonexistent blacksmith? In 1900, there were 226,477 blacksmiths counted by the U.S. Census. Today the number is negligible. Who laments the slide into occupational oblivion by tallow-renderers? The invention of electricity and electric lights killed off the candle-making industry. Henry Ford almost singlehandedly wiped out buggy manufacturers (as well [...]

1Apr1996 | | 0 comments | Continued

Capitalism Is Merciless to Capitalists

Mr. Levite is a freelance writer residing in San Francisco, California. Attending college in the late 1960s left me with many unique memories. Among these was the economics class in which the instructor told the students that such firms as IBM and Xerox were so huge and powerful that they dominated their markets. Smaller competitors [...]

1Jun1995 | | 0 comments | Continued

Risks in the Modern World: What Prospects for Rationality?

Mr. Smith is president and founder of the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. He is co-editor of Environmental Politics: Public Costs, Private Rewards (Praeger, 1992). Risk refers to the likelihood that something will go wrong.[1] People naturally fear such mishaps, and risk aversion is a basic survival trait. Only non-survivors rush in where angels [...]

1Mar1995 | | 1 comment | Continued
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