torsdag 25 september 2008

The Post-scientific society

“There are growing indications that new innovation-based wealth in the US is arising from something other than organized research in science and engineering.” The post-scientific society.

The most important characteristic of this society is that innovation leading to wealth generation and productivity growth will be based principally not on world leadership in fundamental research in the natural sciences and engineering, but on world-leading mastery of the basic sciences of individual human beings, their societies and their cultures. Post-scientific society will continue to require the results of advanced science and engineering, but the leading edge of innovation will move from the workshop, the laboratory, and the office to the studio, the think tank, and cyberspace.

“The Post-Scientific Society”, Christopher T Hill, Prof. of Public Policy and Technology,
Georg Mason Univ. USA

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