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Repositories of Global Knowledge: Global Science and Technology
In the increasingly knowledge-based global economy, the wealth of a given nation is significantly determined by its capacity for innovation. Science and technology research is an increasingly significant part of the political agenda, not only in the United States and Europe, but throughout much of the world. Science and technology have become globalized to such an extent that these fields are significant factors in the global economy. Issues such as nanoscience/technology research in the US, for instance, are debated prominently not only because of their promise for advancing human existence, but also due to the economic bearing they hold on industries, municipalities, regions, states and nation. Innovations in information, communication and media technology have fundamentally altered the way the global world works, plays, and even thinks. Scientific innovations in life science, biotechnology, and neuroscience/technology have alternately delighted, frightened, or liberated people around the globe, empowering some and rendering others helpless. Much of this scientific and technological advance has been the result of international cooperation and governance, involving international science organizations, on a scale previously unseen. It is only by locating their development, uses, and impacts within social, economic, and political landscapes of our globally connected world that we can obtain a better grasp of contemporary science and technology, frame their problems and formulate solutions to them.
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Major Sub-topics:
International Science Organizations
Information, Telecommunications & Media
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