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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR SOCIAL IMPROVEMENT

Modernization and progress rely on science and technology. True, indeed. But more than materialistic breakthroughs, science and technology is instrumental for a greater social improvement. Find out more in this essay.

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR SOCIAL IMPROVEMENT Can scientific research and technology help mankind create a more decent society? I think so. Some of the world’s most thoughtful and humanistic observers – among them, Archibald McLeish, Jean Paul Stare and Jacques Brazen – believe that science will ultimate be man’s undoing: that in elevating science and technology to the dominant role they hold in the advanced nation’s, forces beyond human comprehension or control have been unleashed. For most of man’s existence, certainly, nature was his worst enemy. Now, civilizations most serious treats are all man – ...





... will fail or succeed in the attainment of its goals will depend on the use to which its policy makers put the capabilities created by scientist. We have the resources for prosperity for all. We have the scientific know – how for increasing and improving these resources. Do we have the will to set about doing it? Can we adapt – politically and psychologically – to our changing times? We must; for if we don’t, the prospect will not be the defeat society but the destruction of the one we have. (Jerome B. Weisner)
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