Science and Technology - Exercise of Control

Science and Technology

• Percentage of People with basic understanding is less than 10% in the world.

• Percentage of people with working knowledge is less than 1%.

• Lives of Billions are impacted both positively and negatively with the advancement of Science and Technology.

Who controls this branch of knowledge and guide and regulate the direction in which the research should progress/ regress??

1. Administrators/ Bureaucrats - Who are ignorant but arrogant with power.
2. Politicians/ Legislators/ Ministers - Who are by majority unqualified to make decisions by multiple reasons and wielding enormous power.
3. Media - Which is fairly crisp in reporting important events, but attaches lower importance unless it is commercial goods.
4. Scientists  - Who are the greatest minority in the world?
5. Businessmen - Who are street smart enough to spot an opportunity and convert that to money. In fact, they shape up the way things should move, by educating/ sensitising the first three categories, in the method conducive to them.

In the words of Late Carl Sagan, the dangerous combustible mixture of  Ignorance and Power concentrated in the administrators will lead the world to chaos.
Any takers for actions??


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan

Science and Technology is the branch of knowledge, which is a game changer. Just the consider the following.

t long before he died in 1996, Carl Sagan gave his last interview on the Charlie Roseshow, and seemed to give a dire warning about the rise of religious fundamentalism in America and its war on science.

Long before Richard Dawkins, Sagan was already at the forefront making the case for scientific thinking, arguing that it’s essential for progress. During the interview, he made the point that religious zealotry and pseudo-science have been around for ages and are nothing new. But if society loosens its hold on scientific thinking, it’s the ignorant politicians and fundamentalists that will step in and replace it.

“We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology,” Sagan said. “And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.”

His connection to Indian thought, is worth its mention.
http://vedicambassador.wordpress.com/tag/carl-sagan/