strategy
Believing in scientific progress
Synonyms:
Trusting in technological progressBelieving in benefits of technical progress
Description:
Believing in the goals of the history of science and technology and the benefits of future trends of scientific and technological achievement. Claim:
In the 1940s, Buckminster Fuller predicted that humanity's constant addition of new knowledge to physical resources would permit every individual and industry to do much more with the same amount of resources. He showed that technology was increasing life-supporting production at a rate much greater than that of population increase. He predicted that by 1970 humanity would reach a level at which every human being could be adequately supported while using only the resources available on Earth. But he also attached a key condition to the realization of this scenario: that humanity must concentrate on life-supporting production rather than on the manufacture of destructive weapons. Constrained by:
Rejecting scientific explanations Facilitates:
ProgressingReviewing progressAccepting new methodsPromoting technical progressMaking progress against underdevelopmentPromoting scientific and technology culturePromoting environmentally sound technologiesReducing adverse effects of scientific progress Problems:
Resistance to new methodsValues:
ProgressDisbeliefUnscientific Subjects:
Social Activity → WelfareTechnology → Technology
Technology → Technical
Science → Science
Development → Progress
Type Classification:
D: Detailed strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
