SITAC Technoscience: Disaster and Panacea

Technoscience: Disaster and Panacea

Science in our time continues to peak, increasing its influence on so many philosophical and artistic expressions as it has done over the centuries. Yet, despite the many recent discoveries of great transcendence, today scientific knowledge does not inspire the same optimism it brought about a hundred years ago. In fact, quite on the contrary, nowadays it is somewhat clear that the technological development made possible by science is the main cause of the planets catastrophic transformation. We have, on the hand, a clearer notion of the magnitude of the challenges we face in a much more complex world that past generations had, and, on the other hand, the awareness of a technological power previously unthinkable, that sporadically runs out of control with devastating consequences.