Science, Technology and our Globalized Culture

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Science, Technology and our Globalized Culture
Nathaniel J. C. Libatique, Ph.D. Quarter 1 Topic
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The Scientific Culture

• Body of knowledge
• Internally consistent
• Logical interrelationship, coherent whole
• Predictive power, verifiable results, empirical
  observation
• Questions have more value than the answers
  Paradigms vs Anomalies
• Community of researchers, peer review, system of
  journals and publication Verification by
  experiment
• Key assumption nature has an inherent order, a
  logical structure often akin to mathematics
  tools logical inference, inductive reasoning,
  analogies, math, luck

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Kekules Dream

• Structure of the Benzene molecule

In 1865 the German chemist Friedrich August
Kekulé published a paper in French (for he was
then teaching in Francophone Belgium) suggesting
that the structure contained a six-membered ring
of carbon atoms with alternating single and
double bonds. The next year he published a much
longer paper in German on the same subject.56
Kekulé used evidence that had accumulated in the
intervening yearsnamely, that there always
appeared to be only one isomer of any
monoderivative of benzene, and that there always
appeared to be exactly three isomers of every
diderivativeto argue in support of his proposed
structure. Kekulé's symmetrical ring could
explain these curious facts, as well as benzene's
11 carbon-hydrogen ratio.
http//leegass.com/gallery/lees-sculptures/nature/
kekules-dream/
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzene
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Future Shock

• First Wave Agriculture
• Nomads settled
• Surplus produce, stability
• Second Wave Industrial Revolution
• Newtonian physics, mechanistic world view
• Internal combustion engine, mass production,
  communications
• Third Wave Knowledge Driven Technology
• DNA
• Quantum engineering, nanotech
• Information technology
• Service driven economy

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Globalization
It's a Flat World, After All By THOMAS L.
FRIEDMAN April 3, 2005, New York Times In 1492
Christopher Columbus set sail for India, going
west. He had the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa
Maria. He never did find India, but he called the
people he met ''Indians'' and came home and
reported to his king and queen ''The world is
round.'' I set off for India 512 years later. I
knew just which direction I was going. I went
east. I had Lufthansa business class, and I came
home and reported only to my wife and only in a
whisper ''The world is flat.''
Globalization 1.0 Nation States Globalization
2.0 Multinational Corporations Globalization
3.0 The Individual!
http//www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/magazine/03DOMIN
ANCE.html?_r1orefslogin
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Ten Flatteners

• 1. destruction of the berlin wall and the
  creation of microsoft windows (universal OS
  platform)
• 2. creation of Netscape -- universal
  communications platform - which triggered massive
  investment by companies like Global Crossing in
  fiber optics -- think railroads -- but railroads
  to india
• 3. workflow to make use of the these fiber
  optic railroads
• 4. outsourcing
• 5. offshoring
• 6. open-sourcing -- think perl, linux, etc
• 7. insourcing -- letting UPS handle your
  internal logistics
• 8. supply-chaining -- think walmart's chain
  from china to here
• 9. informing -- Google
• 10. steroids -- taking everything before and
  improving it - thinks VOIP, WIRELESS, etc

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Britney Spears
Sarah Geronimo
http//www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail.html
October 2004 article by Chris Anderson
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Michael Jackson 604,000

• M Miley Cyrus, Michael Jackson, Metallica,
• Mi Miley Cyrus, Michael Jackson, Miley Cyrus The
  Climb, Michael Jordan,
• Mic Michael Jackson, Michael Jordan,

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Charice Pempengco 10,000

• C Chris Brown, Ciara, Carrie Underwood
• Ch Chris Brown, , Christina Aguilera, Carrie
  Underwood
• Cha Charlie bit my finger, charlie the unicorn
• Chari Charice Pempengco

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Youtube hits

• Michael Jackson 604,000
• Britney Spears 350,000
• Sarah Geronimo 23,500
• Charice Pempengco 10,000
• Moymoy Palaboy 4,560
• Ken Lee 4,860
• Valentina Hassan - 239

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Tell me it isnt flat

• Apache vs. IBM
• Firefox, Blake Ross
• Linux, Linus Torvalds
• Google, S. Brin, L Page, GBooks
• SMART
• Jollibee
• Lord of The Rings
• Larry Qua, Ionics EMS

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Required Material

• Please watch the following video on youtube
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vEcE2ufqtzykfeature
  related MIT Milestone Celebration Keynote
  Address by Thomas Friedman).
• Also read from our text Romancing Science
• J. Garcias Technology and Society