Congressional Office of Technology Assessment

The congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) closed its doors September 29, 1995. For 23 years, the nonpartisan, analytical agency assisted Congress with the complex and highly technical issues that increasingly affect our society. OTA put the science in "political science" and provided Congress its deepest, most comprehensive analysis. Which is to say, we spent a lot of time saying, "No Congressman, gene splicing has nothing to do with mending a pair of ripped Levi's."

As an OTA analyst, I was a principal writer of the following snore-fests, I mean, publications.