The Contribution of science and technology and its limits

Meeting paper on the importance of technology assessment in developing countries for evaluating technical progress and scientific development as related to economic and social development - discusses benefits in the fields of food production, health and the mass media, examines the need for a change in value systems so as to avoid the mercenary ethic and stress on economic growth of industrial society, refers to the sociology of science and to human activities effects and resulting problems in developed nations

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Main Authors: Symposium on the Socio-cultural Aspects of Science and Technology in the Development Process and on the Role Played therein by Young Scientists and Engineers, Teheran, 1975, Pyke, Magnus
Format: programme and meeting document biblioteca
Language:eng
Subjects:Technology assessment, Developing countries, Technological change, Scientific development, Economic and social development, Food production, Health, Mass media, Value systems, Economic growth, Industrial societies, Science and society, Human activities effects, Science in the Contemporary World: the Human Implication of Scientific Advance,
Online Access:https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000015526
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