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Gary Becker (Nobel Prize for Economics 1993, USA)
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Fear and education
Summary of the speech Technology is involved in the growth of modern society, but the knowledge that it can cause fear is also widespread. Technology has two functions. It solves problems and generates fear among people. In the field of medicine, science has helped to prolong the average human life span through the discovery of new drugs and new therapies. Infantile mortality is practically zero in industrialised countries. Instead other problems such as cancer, fear of old age and Alzheimer's disease are becoming widespread. Industrialisation and the use of fossil fuels cause increasing pollution, but it is from technology that the first solutions to pollution are coming. We also need to underline the positive aspect of globalisation rather than the negative effects on the world population. The quality of life has improved around the world with globalisation. What we are afraid of today is a financial crisis and unemployment because of the use of labour from China or other developing countries. We need to make better use of information flows that the new technologies make available. Ignorance leads to fear and disorientation. People must believe in the role of professional education and training, to be useful to society and overcome today's fears. .
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