Erik_M._Conway

Erik M. Conway

Erik M. Conway

American historian

Erik M. Conway (born 1965) is the historian at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.[1] He is the author of several books. He previously completed a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1998, with a dissertation on the development of aircraft landing aids.

In High-Speed Dreams (2005), Conway argues that U.S. government sponsorship of supersonic commercial transportation systems resulted from Cold War concerns about a loss of technological prowess in the modern world.[2][3] Realizing the Dream of Flight (2006) consists of eleven essays on individuals prepared in honor of the one hundredth anniversary of the Wright brothers' first powered flight.[4] Conway also wrote Blind Landings (2007) and he is a co-author of a secondary-level education text entitled Science and Exploration (2007). Atmospheric Science at NASA was published in 2008.[5]

His 2010 book Merchants of Doubt was co-authored with Naomi Oreskes,[6] as was his article in the Winter 2013 issue of Daedalus called The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future.[7]

Bibliography

  • High-Speed Dreams (2005)
  • Realizing the Dream of Flight (2006)
  • Blind Landings (2007)
  • Science and Exploration (2007)
  • Atmospheric Science at NASA (2008)
  • Merchants of Doubt (co-authored with Naomi Oreskes; 2010)
  • The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future (Daedalus, 2013)
  • The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market (co-authored with Naomi Oreskes; Bloomsbury, 2023)
  • Oreskes, Naomi & Erik M. Conway (September 2020). "The information manipulators : by moving matter and energy, innovators have democratized information". Scientific American. 323 (3): 40–46.[8]

Notes and references

  1. [1]
    "Collins Literary Agency Rights Guide/March 2008" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-09-15. Retrieved 2010-12-03.
  2. [2]
    Book review: High-Speed Dreams: NASA and the Technopolitics of Supersonic Transportation The Journal of American History, Vol. 39, No. 1, June 2006.
  3. [3]
    Erik M. Conway (2005). High-Speed Dreams: NASA and the Technopolitics of Supersonic Transportation Johns Hopkins University Press.
  4. [4]
    Realizing the Dream of Flight: Biographical Essays in Honor of the Centennial of Flight, 1903–2003 (review) Technology and Culture, Volume 48, Number 1, January 2007, pp. 232–234.
  5. [5]
    Erik M. Conway (2008). Atmospheric Science at NASA: a history Johns Hopkins University Press.
  6. [6]
    McKie, Robin. "Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M Conway". The Guardian, August 8, 2010
  7. [7]
    "Some Like It Hot!" Bill McKibben May 9, 2013 New York Review of Books
  8. [8]
    Online version is titled "Unlimited information is transforming society".
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