Science and Technology in the Transformation of the World (UNU, 1982, 496 p.): Opening addresses: Zivorad Kovacevic

Science and Technology in the Transformation of the World (UNU, 1982, 496 p.)

(introduction...)

Foreword

Opening addresses

Zivorad Kovacevic

Pavle Savic

Miroslav Pecujlic

Kinhide Mushakoji

The gear-box of priorities

Anouar Abdel-Malek

Le nécessaire et le possible dans la formation du mondial (Keynote Address)

Henri Lefebvre

(introduction...)

Première Partie: Le Mondial, Esquisse d'une Analyse

Deuxième Partie: L'Informationnel et sa Problématique a l'Echelle Mondiale

Conclusion

Session I: Science and technology as formative factors of contemporary civilization - from domination to liberation

(introduction...)

Introduction

Report on session I

Technology and society

Ralko Tomovic

Conclusion

Paradigmes scientifiques et auto-détermination humaine

Yves Barel

Science and the making of contemporary civilization

J. Leite Lopes

Introduction

I. The physical image of the world

II. Science and underdevelopment in Latin America

III. Science and dependent development

IV. Endogenization of science in which society?

V. The aims of science

VI. Science for liberation

Notes

Session II: Technology generation and transfer - Transformation alternatives

(introduction...)

Introduction

Report on session II

The collective self-reliance of developing countries in the fields of science and technology

Slobodan Ristic

I. General considerations

II. Co-operation among developing countries in developing national potentials

Ill. The strengthening of the negotiating position of developing countries in science and technology

IV. Instead of a conclusion

Notes

Science and technology in Japanese history: university and society

Konji Kawano

(introduction...)

I. Japan before the second world war

II. The change after the second world war

III. The significance of ''the age of local communities''

Legal aspects of the transfer of technology in modern society

Vestry Besarovic

Introduction

The relevance of the legal order to the transfer of technological knowledge

Some proposed measures on the national and international levels

Philosophy (concepts) of scientific and technological development

Vladimir Slambuk

Introduction

I. Development and underdevelopment

II. Definition of some basic terms

III. Existing philosophies of scientific-technological development

IV. Self-reliance

Bibliography

Session III: Biology, medicine, and the future of mankind

(introduction...)

Introduction

Report on session III

La maîtrise de la vie: Pour quoi faire?

Bruno Ribes

Introduction

I. Necessite et enjeux

II. La 'logique' du vivant

III. Quoi faire?

Restructuring a framework for assessment of science and technology as a driving power for social development: a biosociological approach

Yuji Mori

I. Introduction - The darwinian and ned-darwinian systems

II. Sociobiology or biosociology? how to view humans and their society

III. Three levels of production and consumption

IV. Needs

V. Science and technology as cultural phenomena

VI. The turning point of social development: space and time

Notes

Human aspects of medical sciences: Medical technology and the responsibility of the physician

Ljubisa Rakic

Session IV: The control of space and power

(introduction...)

Introduction

Report on session IV

Toward a clearer definition of the role of science and technology in transformation

Osama A. El-Kholy

Introduction

I. A view of the problem from within

II. The view from without

III. Toward a clearer definition of the role of science and technology in transformation

Appendix I.

Appendix II.

Appendix III.

Notes

Science, technology, and politics in a changing world

José A. Silva Michelena

I. What kind of transformation?

II. The nature of the crisis

III. World political trends

IV. The role of science and technology

V. A proposition

Notes

The technology of repression and repressive technology: The social bearers and cultural consequences

Zoran Vidakovic

Introduction

I. The vicious circle of repressive technology

II. The main social figures of repressive technology

III. Militarization of the economy and science: the birthplace of the metropolitan technocracy

IV. The genesis of the ''technocratic elite'' in dependent societies

Nuclear energy in Latin America: The Brazilian case

Luiz Pinguelli Rosa

I. The Brazilian nuclear programme and the treaty with the federal Republic of Germany

II. Perspectives on nuclear energy in Brazil

III. Nuclear energy and the prestige of national power

IV. The possibility of latin american nuclear co-operation

V. The position of brazil regarding nuclear proliferation

Appendices

References

Session V: From intellectual dependence to creativity

(introduction...)

Introduction

Report on session V

(introduction...)

Discussion

Summary

La apropiación y la recuperación de las ciencias sociales en el contexto de los proyectos culturales endógenos

Guillermo Bonfil Batalla

Introducción

I. El problema de la creatividad endógena en ciencias sociales.

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III. La formación de una intelectualidad India contemporánea.

IV. Notas para un proyecto de desarrollo endógeno de las ciencias sociales.

Notas

On the edge of a razor blade: the new historical blocs and socio-cultural alternatives in Europe

Miroslav Pecuilic and Zoran Vidakovic

Introduction

I. The new janus - Two faces of science and technology

II. The pathology of power and science

III. The new protagonist - social movements and organic intelligentsia

IV. Dramatic birth of alternatives

V. Self-reliance and solidarity (autonomy and new universality)

Notes

Science and technology in the history of modern Japan: imitation or endogenous creativity?

Tetsuro Nakaoka

(introduction...)

Notes

Science and technology as an organic part of contemporary culture

Zvonimir Damjanovic

Joseph Needham's contribution to the history of science and technology in China

Gregory Blue

(introduction...)

Notes

References

General report on the seminar

Appendix: Position papers

Participants

From the charter of the United Nations University

Zivorad Kovacevic

President of the City Assembly of Belgrade

I have the honour to welcome you cordially on behalf of the citizens of Belgrade and in my own name, guests and participants of the International Seminar on Science and Technology in the Transformation of the World, and to wish you successful work.

The place of your meeting - the University of Belgrade in the city of Belgrade - is a place of progressive tradition, openness, free communication, host to a number of international political, professional, scientific meetings dedicated to advancement of mutual co-operation.

However, the fact that this is the first international symposium of the United Nations University and that it is held jointly with our university, as well as the fact that it is dedicated to a topic such as the humanistic role of science, is our special pleasure and honour.

This fact is not accidental. it is rooted in the joint strivings of the United Nations University and our country; in a lively sense of the great dilemmas of our epoch which are troubling the world and especially developing countries; in endeavours for creating a more human, more just community of the new world economic but also social and cultural order.

The United Nations University is a noble example of such endeavours, establishing mutual links between countries, mutual intellectual enrichment. Your project, the theme which is the topic of your research, shows such a richness; a panorama of significant and inspiring themes comprising fundamental dimensions of scientific work from natural to social sciences.

Your seminar is dedicated to a topic that attracts more and more attention, the crucial topic of our epoch - the relations between technique and society, technological growth and human progress. It is dedicated to science and technology, which are parts of a new civilization wave; which are becoming a driving force of development, a strong lever for the humanization of the world, for the liquidation of poverty and hunger, for reducing the gap between rich and poor countries - this volcanic contradiction of our epoch.

But it would be a dangerous illusion to believe that technique by itself will solve existential problems. In spite of its great humanistic potentialities it can be abused, it can become destructive of nature, transformed into a powerful instrument of domination and power over people and whole communities, it can be used in favour of privileged groups and countries.

Technological growth will provide human progress not if it is stopped, but if it is connected with humanistic aims. It is necessary that every country develop its own creativity and not merely adopt foreign patterns of industrial urban development. Without individual creativity and development of all individual scientific potentialities, independent social and cultural identity cannot be achieved. However, it does not mean autarchy. On the contrary, at the same time that we reject any sterile isolation and building of Chinese walls around ourselves, we open up bridges towards the world, towards universal scientific achievements and mutual enrichment. Our times have become an epoch of general interdependence - technological, economic, cultural. But the world shall become a real human community of equal people and nations only provided that each culture enriches it by its authentic, unique creativity, looking for answers to the problems that we all have to face.

This is the great, real role of a university which comes out of its isolation and has a sense for social needs. However, it is not merely a receiver of orders, but is rather one of the pioneers in the discovery of new possibilities of development; a watchtower of the world development of science from the viewpoint of the need for development of all creative potentialities of one's own society.

I know that one group at this meeting shall separately discuss science and technology as causes of change in urban environment. Belgrade as a big urban centre is especially interested in all achievements that can improve conditions of work and life in big urban centres. We are putting great efforts into this aspect and we have, besides a number of research programmes, invested a considerable part of our scientific and financial potentialities in the establishment of the Centre for Urban Technology. The principal task of the Centre is to carry out in practice the theoretical knowledge accumulated in the world and to give answers as to how citizens - producers and consumers - can more effectively participate in making vital decisions in their everyday lives.