Background
Gorn, Michael Herman was born on January 23, 1950 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of Max and Anne F. (Klein) Gorn.
(This monograph on the forecasting of long-range Air Force...)
This monograph on the forecasting of long-range Air Force science began as an attempt to describe the five major scientific studies undertaken by the U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF)/U.S. Air Force (USAF) since the end of World War II. These reports included Toward New Horizons (1945), the Woods Hole Summer Studies (1957-1958), Project Forecast (1964), New Horizons II (1975), and Project Forecast II (1986). They seemed at first to represent nothing more than isolated efforts to predict the technological future. But shortly after initiating research on the subject, it became clear that several themes linked the five reports. Rather than a collection of unrelated analyses, common threads were seen to run through them. The realization of this pattern was surprising. Taken at face value, the reports appeared to be entirely different. They were not produced in any one place; they were not directed by people with similar backgrounds or educations. Both in number and type of participants, they differed widely. Methodologies were not at all uniform. Their conclusions varied significantly. In fact, they did not even have the same purposes. Toward New Horizons was initiated to summarize the most advanced air power technologies of World War II and project them into the future . The Woods Hole Summer Studies organized hundreds of academic scientists to predict the short and long-term military uses of space. Project Forecast had the mandate of revitalizing Air Force thinking by linking national policy issues to scientific vistas and new weapon systems. New Horizons II endeavored to point the way toward technological improvements in a period of expected scarcity. Finally, Project Forecast II sought to infuse the Air Force laboratories with new avenues of basic science research. Thus, for a variety of internal and external reasons, at roughly ten year intervals since the Second World War, the Air Force launched major science and technology forecasts.
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Gorn, Michael Herman was born on January 23, 1950 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of Max and Anne F. (Klein) Gorn.
Bachelor in History, California State University, Northridge, 1972; Master of Arts in History, California State University, Northridge, 1973; Doctor of Philosophy in History, University of Southern California, 1978.
Chief of archives, New England History Genealogical Society, Boston, 1978-1981; staff historian, command historian, United States Air Force History Program, Washington, 1981-1991; chief historian, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, 1991-1993; senior historian, Office of the Air Force Historian, Washington, 1993-1995; associate editor, National Air and Space Museum, Washington, since 1995.
(This monograph on the forecasting of long-range Air Force...)
Member American History Association, American Association of Museum, American Association for State and Local History, Society for History of Technology, Society for History in Federal Government.