Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of Anthropology, August 2003. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Title from PDF of submission page. / Document formatted into pages; contains 49 pages. / Thesis (M. Arch.)--University of South Florida, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references. / Text (Electronic thesis) in PDF format. / ABSTRACT: Civilization seems barely able to keep up with the new information technology. Therefore, I propose a place where the technologies of the future may be interacted with like the comfortable knowledge of the past. I propose a place where technology may be interacted on as in the realm of the past with the doors of the future ahead. The Museum of Science and Industry, where the grasp of our technological history is displayed, would be an ideal site for the creation of a Prototypical Computer Museum. With its close proximity to the University of South Florida, resources and participants would be abundant. The Prototypical Computer Museum will be a place where the education and explanation of new technology is continued. / This would also provide an arena for the development and interaction of state-of-the-art computer technologies and will be considered the cultural centerpiece for the new millenium. Activities at this Multi-Media Center range from basic explanations of initial computer inventions to on-site research and development of future technologies. Permanent and traveling exhibitions would attract and expose people of all ages to the new waves of technological devices and inventions that engulf our daily activities. This simple ideal is blanketed with a variety of complicated sociological issues that will be addressed throughout the thesis research and its fruition. The fundamental paradox is the borderlessness of the technology, which is continually at odds with the structures housing and exhibiting such technologies. Another major concern is the development of virtual reality and its dwindling necessity for the development of the architecture that contains it. / This is a technology that is accessible anywhere but located nowhere. As Otto Riewoldt states, "By reacting to the digital dematerialization of the world, architecture becomes increasingly individualized."1 In the words of American architectural critic Herbert Muschamp, "subjectivity takes command. Like surrealists these architects seem determined to blur the border between waking reality and the dream state." / System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader. / Mode of access: World Wide Web.

2000年代に日本の科学・技術の論文数の増加が止まった。物理学では大学も企業も論文数を減らし、博士課程学生数が減少した。これは論文数の減少が知的活動の総体としての「知識」に関わる社会構造的な問題であることを示唆する。物理論文が減少した原因と社会的背景を明らかにするために、博士進学率について重回帰分析を行ない、「知識と人」社会循環モデルを提唱して社会における知の進化とサイエンス型産業の持続的発展について考察した。 / The number of articles on science and technology in Japan stopped increasing in the 2000s. In physics, universities and companies reduced the number of articles, and the number of doctoral students decreased. This suggests that the decrease in the number of articles is a social structural issue related to "knowledge" as a whole of intellectual activity. In order to clarify the cause of decrease in academic papers in physic, multiple regression analysis on entering rate of doctoral courses was performed and its social background was discussed. A "knowledge and person" social circulation model was advocated, and relation between evolution of knowledge in society and the sustainable development of the science-based industry was considered. / 博士(技術・革新的経営) / Doctor of Philosophy in Technology and Innovative Management / 同志社大学 / Doshisha University