The Key to XXI Century (Science as the Basis of the Coming Society)

The book focuses on the guidelines and priorities of the scientific and technological development of our time. It reveals both the trends that have taken shape and continue to gain in strength and the opportunities opening up through their growth. The arguments and conclusions of the author are based on a vast factual and statistical material, the data of sociological research, the reflections and generalizations by scientists and experts. This work can be of interest to those making the state policy in the area of science and technology as well as to the managers responsible for research in financial-industrial groups and other big business corporations.

Contents

Introduction: The bridge into the future
1. A glance into the past
2. The socialization of science
3. The joints of time
Chapter I. The triple alliance in action (The system “Science – production – education”)
1. The potential of science
2. The organizational integration
3. Some lessons for teaching
Chapter II. The laser – computer junction (The genesis of the new industrial revolution)
1. Back to the origins
2. The energy-information world
3. The buffer of the reason
Chapter III. Humans among unmanned technologies (The automation of production and the problem of employment)
1. A giddy turnabout
2. The reserves and the limits
3. Out of the impasse
By way of conclusion: Science for humans (Social evaluation of scientific research)
1. The effect of science
2. Embracing the unembraceable
3. Criteria and methods

Keywords: scientific work, potential of science, technological progress, new industrial revolution, social evaluation of research.