Erik Meade Conway (born 1965) is the historian at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. 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.Book review: High-Speed Dreams: NASA and the Technopolitics of Supersonic Transportation The Journal of American History, Vol. 39, No. 1, June 2006.Erik M. Conway (2005). High-Speed Dreams: NASA and the Technopolitics of Supersonic Transportation Johns Hopkins University Press. 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.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. 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.Erik M. Conway (2008). Atmospheric Science at NASA: a history Johns Hopkins University Press.
His 2010 book Merchants of Doubt was co-authored with Naomi Oreskes,McKie, Robin. "Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M Conway". The Guardian, August 8, 2010 as was his article in the Winter 2013 issue of Daedalus called The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future."Some Like It Hot!" Bill McKibben May 9, 2013 New York Review of Books
Bibliography
High-Speed Dreams (2005) Realizing the Dream of Flight (2006) Exploration and Science: Social Impact and Interaction (Science and Society), Co-authors: by Michael Sean Reidy, Gary Kroll (2006) Blind Landings (2007) Science and Exploration (2007) Atmospheric Science at NASA (2008) Merchants of Doubt (co-author: 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-authors: Naomi Oreskes; Bloomsbury, 2023) Online version is titled "Unlimited information is transforming society".
Notes and references
External links Erik M. Conway personal website What's in a Name? Global Warming vs. Climate Change