Science and knowledge production are at a difficult but an exciting juncture. This situation has vast implications for humanity’s survival and progress depending on how much we are able to change the course of scientific and technological application as tools for progress, not as masters to obey. What scientists know to be the current and (plausible) future state of affairs is not (popularly known to the masses. How do we engage society in disseminating various answers to the many complex, emerging questions about science and technology?
Your input is welcome.
Scientific systems evolution is at crossroads, concerning the master (imagination) and slave (calculation) functions of the human mind.
The distinction between approaches to truth has always been used except that today it is done so openly without any desire for objectivity. As yet this open approach to truth as not affected science or academy but both have always been liable to distortion. As yet our intelligence is only occasionally insulted.
Communicate whose message?
When you can successfully separate Good from Evil in the minds of the communicators....
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There is always someone with an agenda [ Is our Science not driven by politics or Big Business] and always someone with a need to dominate. It is in our Nature. It is our 'Civilisation'
The players will determine the game. And we will have to live with the consequences...
Dear Stephen, Uchendu, Eman, Stanley, Anjay, Fazleh and all others, thank you so much for your input.
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