Anthony J. Wiener
Chapter 15.  The Year 2000:  A View from 1967

  Anthony J. Wiener is professor emeritus of management at Polytechnic University in New York.  He joined the Polytechnic faculty in September 1975 and served for many years as deputy director of its Management of Technology program.  Prior to this, he taught economics and political science at MIT.  At the time he coauthored the "Year 2000" study with Herman Kahn, Wiener was chairman of the research management council of the Hudson Institute, a position that he held for ten years. He is currently an adjunct fellow at the Institute. 

Wiener spent two years working in the White House during the Nixon Administration, first as chairman of the White House Urban Affairs Research Committee, then as a senior research consultatnt with the President's National Goals Research Staff, where he coauthored, Toward Balanced Growth: Quantity with Quality. Professor Wiener holds a bachelor's degree from Harvard College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.


Links:

Biography and syllabus for Wiener's course,"Managing the Innovative Process"

Hudson Institute home page

Column by Robert Fulford of the Toronto Globe and Mail commenting on 1960s futurists, including Kahn and Wiener.



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