Can technological progress continue to provide for the future?

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Published: Oct 1, 1973
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/grsr.282
Melvin Ktanzberg
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
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Author Biography
Melvin Ktanzberg, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Melvin Kranzberg was bom in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1917.
He received his A.B. from Amherst College and then studied
at Harvard University, where he earned his Ph. D. in 1942.
He has received honorary degrees from Denison University,
Newark College of Engineering, and Northern Michigan University.
Dr. Kranzberg has served as a Vice-President of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science and
Chairman of its Section L (History and Philosophy of Science).
He is former Chairman of the Humanistic-Social Division of
the American Society for Engineering Education and former
Chairman of the Historical Advisory Committee of the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration; he is
currently Chairman of the United States National Committee
of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of
Science. He is the founder of the Society for the History of
Technology and editor of its quarterly journal, Technology
■and Culture. Dr. Kranzberg is editor of the two-volume Technology
in Western Civilization (1967) and the author of
■several books and numerous articles in encyclopedias and
scholarly journals on eng.neering education, French history, 

and the history of science and technology. Awarded the
Leonardo da Vinci Medal of the Society for the History
of Technology in 1967, he was Professor of History and
Director of the Graduate Program in the History of Science
and Technology at Case Western Reserve University, until 1972.
On July 1, 1972, Dr. Kranzberg became Callaway Professor
of the History of Technology at Georgia Institute of Technology.
His most recent book, co-edited with William H. Davenport,
published by Schocken Books, is Technology and Culture:
An Anthology. It is a collection of articles drawn from the
first decade of Technology and Culture, the journal which
Dr. Kranzberg founded and whose editor he has been since
its inception.
Dr. Kranzberg is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and is on the
National Executive Board of the Society of Sigma Xi.