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- Title
Globalisation Trapped.
- Authors
Caraça, João
- Abstract
The promise of making society progress through the direct applications of science was finally fulfilled in the mid-20th century. Science progressed immensely, propelled by the effects of the two world wars. The first science-based technologies saw the daylight during the 1940s and their transformative power was such that neither the military, nor subsequently the markets, allowed science to return intact to its curiosity-driven nest. Technoscience was born then and (being progressively pulled away from curiosity-driven science) was able to grow enormously, erecting a formidable structure of networks of institutions that impacted decisively on the economy. It is a paradox, or maybe a trap, that the fulfillment of science's solemn promise of 'transforming nature' means seeing ourselves and our Western societies entangled in crises after crises with no clear outcome in view. A redistribution of geopolitical power is under way, along with the deployment of information and communication technologies, forcing dominant structures to oscillate, as knowledge about organization and methods, marketing, design, and software begins to challenge the role of technoscience as the main vector of economic growth and wealth accumulation. What ought to be done?
- Subjects
GLOBALIZATION; 15TH century Italian history; PERSPECTIVE (Art); SCIENTIFIC development; SCIENCE
- Publication
Cadmus, 2017, Vol 3, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
2038-5242
- Publication type
Article