Erik M. Conway Explained

Erik Meade Conway^[1] (born 1965) is the historian at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.^[2] 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.^{[3] [4]} 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.^[5] 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.^[6]

His 2010 book Merchants of Doubt was co-authored with Naomi Oreskes,^[7] as was his article in the Winter 2013 issue of Daedalus called The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future.^[8]

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 . Naomi Oreskes . amp . September 2020 . The information manipulators : by moving matter and energy, innovators have democratized information . Scientific American . 323 . 3 . 40–46 . limited . 2022-05-23-->. ^[9]

External links

• Erik M. Conway personal website
• What's in a Name? Global Warming vs. Climate Change

Notes and References

1. Web site: Erik Meade Conway . American Geophysical Union.
2. Web site: Collins Literary Agency Rights Guide/March 2008 . 2010-12-03 . 2016-09-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160915151315/http://www.marcovigevani.com/upload/london_2008/Collins_Literary_London_2008_Rights_List.pdf . dead .
3. http://www.historycooperative.org/cgi-bin/justtop.cgi?act=justtop&url=http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/93.1/br_150.html Book review: High-Speed Dreams: NASA and the Technopolitics of Supersonic Transportation
4. Erik M. Conway (2005). High-Speed Dreams: NASA and the Technopolitics of Supersonic Transportation Johns Hopkins University Press.
5. http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/technology_and_culture/v048/48.1conway.html Realizing the Dream of Flight: Biographical Essays in Honor of the Centennial of Flight, 1903–2003 (review)
6. Erik M. Conway (2008). Atmospheric Science at NASA: a history Johns Hopkins University Press.
7. McKie, Robin. "Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M Conway". The Guardian, August 8, 2010
8. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/may/09/some-like-it-hot/#fn-1 "Some Like It Hot!"
9. Online version is titled "Unlimited information is transforming society".