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About the Authors
WALTER S. BAER is director of advanced technology at the Times
Mirror Company, Los Angeles, California. Prior to joining Times
Mirror in 1981, he was director of the Energy Policy Program at the
Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, California. He has published
widely in the fields of energy, telecommunications, and science and
technology policy. His book Cable Television: A Handbook for De-
cisionmaking received a 1975 Preceptor Award from the Broadcast
Industry Conference. Before joining Rand Dr. Baer served on the staff
of the Office of Science and Technology in the Executive Office of the
President and as a White House Fellow with Vice-President Hubert
Humphrey. Dr. Baer holds a B.S. degree from the California Institute
of Technology and a Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of
Wisconsin. He is currently a member of the faculty of the Rand
Graduate Institute.
ANNE WELLS BRANSCOMB is a lawyer specializing in communications
law, a fellow of the Gannett Center for the Study of the Media at
Columbia University, and a recent chairman of the Communications
Law Division of the American Bar Association Science and Technology
Section. Mrs. Branscomb serves on the Steering Committee of the
Annenberg Scholars Program of the Annenberg School of Communi-
cations at USC and on the Advisory Committee of the Communications
Law Program of UCLA. She is a contributing editor of The Information
Society and the Journal of Communication, and a trustee of the
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is currently writing a book,
Teletribes and Telecommunities, on the social and political impact of
communications technologies and is editor of Toward a Law of Global
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ABOUT TlIE AUTHORS
Communications Networks. She is a member of the Commission on
Freedom and Equality of Access to Information. Mrs. Branscomb is
an honor graduate of the George Washington University Law School
and holds degrees in political science from Harvard University and
the University of North Carolina.
HARLAN CLEVELAND is dean of the University of Minnesota's Hubert
H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, and professor of public
affairs; he has been at Minnesota since August 1980. A Princeton
University graduate, he was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University
in the late 1930s; an economic warfare specialist in Washington, D.C.,
and United Nations Relief Administrator in Italy and China in the
1940s; and a foreign aid manager, magazine editor and publisher, and
dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at
Syracuse University in the 1950s. Mr. Cleveland served as Assistant
Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs in the admin-
istration of President John F. Kennedy, and as U.S. ambassador to
NATO under President Lyndon B. Johnson. From 1969 to 1974 he
was the president of the University of Hawaii, and from 1974 to 1980
he was director of the Program in International Affairs of the Aspen
Institute for Humanistic Studies. He is author or editor of 13 books.
His latest book, from which his paper for this volume is derived, is
The Knowledge Executive: Leadership in an Information Society (New
York: E. P. Dutton, 1985~.
THEODORE ]. GORDON is president of The Futures Group, which he
founded in 1971. The Futures Group is a management consulting fib
in the fields of planning, futures research, policy analysis, and project
implementation. He has been associated with futures research and
policy analysis for many years, and has made substantive and meth-
odological contributions to both fields. He is one of the innovators or
co-innovators of several methods of forecasting, including cross-impact
analysis, trend impact analysis, and probabilistic system dynamics.
Mr. Gordon helped establish the Institute for the Future, where he
served as vice-president and senior research fellow prior to 1971.
Before joining the institute, Mr. Gordon directed engineering programs
at the McDonned-Douglas Astronautics Company, serving variously
over 16 years as chief engineer of the Saturn Program, test conductor
for the THOR and THOR-Launch Systems, and director of Advanced
Space Systems and Launch Vehicles. Mr. Gordon earned a B.S. in
aerodynamics from Louisiana State University and an M.S. in aero-
dynamics from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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MELVIN KRANZBERG is the Callaway Professor of the History of
Technology at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the principal
founder of the Society for the History of Technology; edited its
quarterly journal, Technology and Culture, from 1959 to 1981; and
became president of the society in 1983. Dr. Kranzberg was one of
the original members of the History Advisory Committee of the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, serving as its chai~-~an
from 1966 to 1969; in 1984 he was reappointed chairman of that
committee and made a member of the NASA Advisory Council. In
1979-1980 Dr Kranzberg was national president of Sigma Xi, the
Honorary Scientific Research Society. Professor Kranzberg received
his A.B. from Amherst College, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard
University.
JOHN S. MAYO is executive vice-president, Network Systems at AT&T
Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. Since joining Bell
Laboratories in 1955, Dr. Mayo has been director of the Oceans
Systems Laboratory, executive director of the Ocean Systems Division,
executive director of the Toll Electronic Switching Division, and vice-
president of Electronics Technology. He assumed his present position
in May 1979. Dr. Mayo received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in
electrical engineering from North Carolina State University. He was
elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1979.
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