Share| Techno-science and Ethics

The emergence of science-based industries after the Second World War, characterized by high technological intensity, created deep impacts on the economy, society, and on the scientific establishment itself. Science became a critical factor of competitiveness and economic growth and technology-driven research began to attract a majority of science-devoted funding. Mainstream science turned into techno-science and curiosity-driven research became the periphery of scientific endeavor. On the other hand, economic globalization nurtured a struggle between competing world orders implying the phasing out of the moral world of modernity. The resurgence of ethics is thus the other side of the new minted coin of globalization. Its aim is an impediment, rather than stimulation of new behavior, amenable to change and to create a sustainable new world