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Are we under the threat of a Third World War or something else we have always taken as our ultimate salvation, and that is the advancement in science and technology? Redd Foxx, acting as Fred Sanford in the American soap opera “Good Times”, once remarked that the Third World War would be very different from the Second One because “there won’t be any veterans when it is over.”
I feel the same with any blind faith in science and technology: there might not be any veterans of our human cultures as we know them today once we give in to science and technology lock, stock and a barrel full of technocracy and scientific experiments. Why do I say so? Advancements in science and technology have, indeed, brought tremendous good to the human race in health, communications, information, food production and so on. It is difficult to imagine how we used to do certain things before without the technological trappings we have today, like the mobile phone, airplanes and cars.
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