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Nothing will save us if we don’t save ourselves. Yet there is something that can help us a lot in that endeavor: scientific and technological progress. This is already the Ninth Great Issue for the Future. And although one of the most popular old sayings tells us that necessity is the mother of invention, we shouldn’t be fooled by the misconceived notion of technological determinism, no matter how many inventions and innovations there are. We can expect a lot from the scientific and technological progress, but not too much. Also in this case, moderation makes the best advisor.
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Lester Thurow, The Future of Capitalism: How Today’s Economic Forces Shape Tomorrow’s World (New York: Penguin Books, 1996).
Francis Wheen, How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions (New York: Public Affairs, 2004).
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Kolodko, G.W. (2014). Salvation in Technological Progress?. In: Whither the World: The Political Economy of the Future. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137470256_4
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