Chapter 14 Introduction

EUROPEAN VISIONS FOR THE KNOWLEDGE AGE A Quest for New Horizons in the Information Society     Paul T Kidd (Ed.) ISBN 978-1-901864-08-3 (Paperback) Price: £19.99/€29.99/US$35.99

Chapter 14

Ecological Humanism and Technology as an Enabler for a Better World

Alfonso Molina

 

Introduction

 

Technological visions are usually imaginative and exciting and open up realms of unheard of possibilities and frontiers where reality and fiction tend to blur and merge. Technological visions however are often devoid of soul and cast humans as secondary players in a historical plot inexorably unfolding towards the envisioned technological future. This chapter portrays a different vision, one that that highlights the potential for a much better world. The vision gives humanity the lead role in shaping an information and communication technology based knowledge society.