Science, Technology and the Future of Man

Abstract

Man's knowledge as well as progress in science and technology is becoming recognized in our time as the fundamental preconditions and resources of wealth, interpreted by the purveyor of global economy in terms of economic development. At the same time it is becoming a truism that science and technology generate not only new knowledge towards human wellbeing and progress but also generate new risks, threats and uncertainty to the human race. This paper critically explores the dilemmatic and paradoxical conditions facing modern scientists, and argues that the problems generated by modern scientific and technological knowledge and progress in relation to human life and existence rest not on their results but on their control and proper harnessing for the benefit of man. The paper submits that this can be achieved only when the world starts to play down on materialism and give the application of scientific and technological knowledge a humanistic consideration by giving adequate attention to the values that are timeless in order to bring about the true worth of human kind and reinforce its humanity.