端山貢明編書『今日と明日の間の科学技術』 (Science and Technology Between Today and Tomorrow, edited by Hayama Kōmei)

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From the 端山貢明アーカイブ (Hayama Kōmei Archive), item 9877 in the 著書・論文 (books and papers) category, registered 2022-10-02: https://d-commons.net/hayama/?c=&p=9877. Published by the 端山貢明アーカイブプロジェクト (Hayama Kōmei Archive Project), directed by 前川道博 (Michihiro Maekawa) of Nagano University, on the D-Commons platform, and licensed CC BY (表示). The source documents come from the 端山文庫, the papers kept in Hayama's laboratory at Tohoku University of Art and Design, digitised by the project with the agreement of his family; his autograph scores were given to the University History Archives of the Tokyo University of the Arts in 2026. Source: 端山貢明編『今日と明日の間の科学技術』みずうみ書房、1983年、pp.307-323「おわりに」 (ed. Hayama Kōmei, Mizuumi Shobō, 1983, pp. 307–323, 'In closing'). Dated: Grew out of the Asahi Culture Center lecture course 「今日と明日の科学技術」, 一九八一年四月～六月 (April–June 1981). Hayama's closing chapter is printed at pp. 307–323 (the chapter opens on p. 306).. The book grew out of a lecture course Hayama ran at the Asahi Culture Center from April to June 1981; participants' demand made it a book. His closing chapter observes that we live surrounded by advanced technology but meet only its products and surfaces, so that when something goes wrong we have no way to respond — as in the 1960s, when heavy and chemical industry brought prosperity and pollution together and nobody held criteria for judging a technology's fit with society. After the 1973 Arab–Israeli war, development turned toward smaller technologies compatible with their social and natural setting. He places technologies not in the taxonomy of science but in the system of human activity. Technology is a system of methods of conversion: stone knives turned what teeth could not manage into food, extending the stomach into external space, and later technologies extend every input and output function on the skin. Their aim is to let the innate human condition — better called a right, he suggests — be fulfilled unobstructed, as medicine lets a person reach a natural lifespan of eighty. He lays out a layered model from molecule (DNA) through organs and the individual to society, nation, humanity, Earth and the cosmos, and places the book's chapters in it. The computer passage matters most for computer art. Begun as a ballistics and calculation tool, the computer became a social medium once UNIVAC I went to the US Census Bureau; online working and time-sharing made that explicit, and processing speed allowed real-time response, so that interactivity and accessibility gave those formerly stuck on the receiving end 「アクセスにおける主体性」 ("agency in access"). Intel's 1971 microprocessor spread this further, embedding intelligence in machines and opening skilled operations to non-specialists as prices fell and personal computers reached schoolchildren. The chapter shifts the question from the 1960s problem of man–machine fit to supporting good relations between people. Contents as the document gives them: おわりに (In closing) — 1 科学技術の視点 (The viewpoint of science and technology) · 2 ヒューマンシステムにおける科学技術 (Science and technology within the human system) · 3 おわりに (Conclusion) · Chapters of the book as named in the closing text: これからの科学技術 (Science and technology to come) / 医療のテクノロジー (Medical technology) / ライフサイエンス (Life science) / 都市生活とテクノロジー (Urban life and technology) / 帰ってきた機械・ロボット (The machine returns: robots) / 人工衛星から見た地球 (The Earth seen from satellites) / 地球の健康診断 (A health check for the Earth) / 宇宙へのアプローチ (Approaching space) / ストック型エネルギーからフロー型エネルギーへ (From stock-type to flow-type energy) · 科学技術年表⑩―コンピュータ (Science and technology chronology 10: Computers — world / Japan / history of science / social background), pp. 322–323. People named: 端山貢明 (Hayama Kōmei) — editor and author of the closing chapter, 渡辺茂 (Watanabe Shigeru), 桜井靖久 (Sakurai Yasuhisa), 中村桂子 (Nakamura Keiko), 月尾嘉男 (Tsukio Yoshio), 吉川弘之 (Yoshikawa Hiroyuki), 茅陽一 (Kaya Yōichi), 槌田敦 (Tsuchida Atsushi), 竹内仁, 佐藤寿治, 関孝和 (Seki Takakazu) — in the chronology table, パスカル (Blaise Pascal) — chronology, ライプニッツ (Gottfried Leibniz) — chronology, ホレリス (Herman Hollerith) — chronology, ブール (George Boole) — chronology, ファラデー (Michael Faraday) — chronology, ワット (James Watt) — chronology, ベアード (John Logie Baird) — chronology, 大本寅次郎 — chronology (1923 hand-crank 虎印計算機), 塩川新助 — chronology (1938, 富士電機, binary-circuit theory), ロナルド・レーガン (Ronald Reagan) — chronology. Two files are held here: the download above is the text version of Hayama's closing chapter (8 pp.); attached alongside it is the scan from the book (9 pp.), at https://auzflodykqpwhwkadtpq.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/library-files/hayama-science-and-technology-between-today-and-tomorrow/scan-2.pdf. Noted: The nine co-authors are taken from the archive note; the two supplied files (Hayama's closing chapter and its scan) do not carry a contributor list, and the chapters are not attributed to named authors in them. Romanisations of 竹内仁 and 佐藤寿治 could not be established confidently and are left unromanised. The scan (9877_cp000559_012.pdf) is image-only; it reproduces pp. 306–323 plus Hayama's contributor note. Smaller entries in the chronology table are legible only in part — one 1822 entry reads as ドベッチ, probably a misprint or misreading for バベッジ (Babbage), and two 1983 radio-astronomy names could not be resolved. The text transcription (9877_cp000559_014.pdf) contains OCR errors: 従米 for 従来, 慈滋/慈識 for 意識, 購座 for 講座, 閲係 for 関係, 日標 for 目標, 把掘 for 把握, インクラクション for インタラクション, 0A for OA. The book's own colophon (publication date, price, page count) is not in either file.