Modeling the big picture of sci-tech's effects
On modeling the big picture of sci-tech's probable effects on world civilization, including the natural world:
Our civilization is increasingly utilizing, and dependent on, scientific and technological activity for both monitoring and production of new products.
Science and technology normally involves intensive focus on a very small portion of the overall knowledge database, to make the task comprehensible and even do-able, stretching the limits of knowledge a bit, in a specific small area.
Yet, the effects of the overall results will reverberate throughout the whole system of civilization. Sometimes those effects are disruptive to some other segments of civilization, such as the CO2 buildup in the atmosphere contributing to global warming climate effects, produced mostly as a byproduct of extracting the energy our civilization needs to be able to function.
There needs to be part of science and technology that embraces the whole civilization system, to model the effects of the individual sci-tech achievement's overall and long term effects. Yet there seems to be no such entity in existence, other than God, of course. Scientists need a more definitive accessible estimate of the overall effects of their new chemical or gadget on civilization, and thus perhaps easily modify it somewhat so the wider effects will be eased.
What if there were a governmental overseer? Or a business united organization to provide the wide field effects modeling and advisements? But that most likely would have the same pressures now existing in lobbying of governmental decisions, monetary interests for maximum profits somewhere providing the funds for influencing decisions. Nope, won't work, as clearly evident in present-day lesser organizations and control agencies. The whole job is much too vast and the departments have their own small subdivision of the whole, to look after, thus more of the same problem.
Or maybe an impartial computerized system that does the job and is accessible by all. That seems a bit more likely to provide unbiased results. Creating that would be an interesting project.
Our civilization is increasingly utilizing, and dependent on, scientific and technological activity for both monitoring and production of new products.
Science and technology normally involves intensive focus on a very small portion of the overall knowledge database, to make the task comprehensible and even do-able, stretching the limits of knowledge a bit, in a specific small area.
Yet, the effects of the overall results will reverberate throughout the whole system of civilization. Sometimes those effects are disruptive to some other segments of civilization, such as the CO2 buildup in the atmosphere contributing to global warming climate effects, produced mostly as a byproduct of extracting the energy our civilization needs to be able to function.
There needs to be part of science and technology that embraces the whole civilization system, to model the effects of the individual sci-tech achievement's overall and long term effects. Yet there seems to be no such entity in existence, other than God, of course. Scientists need a more definitive accessible estimate of the overall effects of their new chemical or gadget on civilization, and thus perhaps easily modify it somewhat so the wider effects will be eased.
What if there were a governmental overseer? Or a business united organization to provide the wide field effects modeling and advisements? But that most likely would have the same pressures now existing in lobbying of governmental decisions, monetary interests for maximum profits somewhere providing the funds for influencing decisions. Nope, won't work, as clearly evident in present-day lesser organizations and control agencies. The whole job is much too vast and the departments have their own small subdivision of the whole, to look after, thus more of the same problem.
Or maybe an impartial computerized system that does the job and is accessible by all. That seems a bit more likely to provide unbiased results. Creating that would be an interesting project.
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