Science and technology with a human face: A goal of US-USSR cooperation

Science and technology have played major roles in bringing “the new thinking” behind perestroika to the Soviet Union. Nuclear weapons have caused major shifts in foreign policy, telecommunications technologies have made censorship an increasingly hopeless policy, industrial technology has created an...

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Published in:Technology in society 1991, Vol.13 (1), p.11-22
Main Author: Graham, Loren R.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:Science and technology have played major roles in bringing “the new thinking” behind perestroika to the Soviet Union. Nuclear weapons have caused major shifts in foreign policy, telecommunications technologies have made censorship an increasingly hopeless policy, industrial technology has created an environmentalist movement fostering political pluralism, biomedical technologies have raised issues of ethics demonstrating the inadequacy of Marxist values, and the dominance of narrowly-educated engineers among the old Soviet elite has revealed the failure of a technocratic approach to economic planning. A new social sensitivity has come to the USSR as it struggles with new technologies. Opportunities now exist for the USSR and the West to cooperate in creating “Science and Technology With a Human Face.”
ISSN:0160-791X
1879-3274
DOI:10.1016/0160-791X(91)90014-N