| Tittel: | Preparing Africa for the Fourth Industrial Revolution | | Ansvar: | By Tshilidzi Marwala | | Forfatter: | Marwala, Tshilidzi  / Ogada, Tom Peter Migun | | Materialtype: | Artikkel - elektronisk | | Signatur: | WIPO Magazine | | Utgitt: | Geneva : WIPO, 2019 | | Omfang: | S. 20-27 | | ISBN/ISSN: | 1564-7854 | | Serie: | WIPO Magazine ; 2019 | | Geografiske emneord: | Afrika | | Innhold: | Dystopian novels have always been littered with stark warnings about the downfall of humanity that will inevitably accompany technological change. As Aldous Huxley once put it, “technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backward.” Huxley, who is most famous for his novel Brave New World, sketched an eerie picture of the future in the 1930s. Set in a world populated by genetically modified inhabitants and an intelligence-based social hierarchy, Huxley weaves a terrifying tale that prophesizes scientific advancements in sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioning – that ultimately alter the way human beings think and act. The flawed hero eschews it all at the end. Huxley feared that embracing scientific advancements would reduce human beings to passivity and egotism. What Huxley probably had not anticipated is that human beings would adapt and remain active participants in those advancements.
(Artikkelens innledning) | | Del av verk: | WIPO Magazine November Special Issue |
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