Global technology

Güvenç Talk at Dikmen, '08 1

Global TechnologyBozkurt Güvenç

Talk at Dikmen Lodge

Handout Notes

Ankara 6 March 2008

Güvenç Talk at Dikmen, '082

Online: Key Concepts

• Modern, Postmodern, “Most-Modern” Times…• “Globalisation” and “Global Village” • Business at the Village complex or complicated• Revolution called “İnformation Technology” (IT)?• Global Economy uses Technology for consumption• Sustainable Growth or sustainable life on earth?• Dychotomies of Global Village vs Kemalism!• Education but how? Morin’s Prescription for future• References cited• Author’s CV (Resume)


• After Renessance all arts became modern • After WW2 they have become postmodern • Nowadays we pass to “most-modern” stage• We don’t understand what happens.Keep hearing

“Anything goes” and “everything happens!”• We watch the Globe on Screen and accept it• Any and most changes taken as

development ??? • Change is a prerequisite of developmet but • All changes ara not necessarily development • Tyes. Time for decision! but who will decide?

Modern: Postmodern, Mostmodern !


Globalisation and Global Villlage

• Spaceship called Earth was always a globeThru Globalization it becomes “Global Village”

• Bounds, restrictions. costums are being lifted, Goods, humans, ideas freely circulata-almostEvery one can talk to eveyone else on earth

• “ The end of the world es we know it. Future?• İnformation society will end all conflict and start

the peace and order for globe…We’re told.• We want and have to believe. No option.


E’ ben semplice: tutto e complicato: “Just Complicated” –Commedia dell’ Arte.

Selections from the other side of Medallion: Life in the village is getting harder, tougher.

• Villagers become alienated from the Globe • Cleavage yawns wider between haves and nots• Nation states erode; national interests grow• Consumption technology consumes the Globe.• The global surounds the village qeueing for Visa• “İnformation Society” built by “Globalised Media”


Global Trends in IT:Processes of Change in Education and Culture

+ Rising + — Falling —• Media Education

• Celebrities Virtues

• Rights Tasks

• Technology Sciences

• İndividual Social• Power Justice There are Others…


Consumption Economy and Technology

• Affluent consumer societies using high technologies deplete and exhausts the Globe.• Media, employing technology , globalize “free market” and

presents international capital as “globalisation!” • Globalisation process serving the capitalist interests

was a “Gross Disappointment” (Stiglitz,Nobel)• Developed World (Business) using Media and high tech,

hide the hardl facts of the W o r l d C l o c k. • Wje are advised solutions are in the teknology.• Meantime we are happy playing with technological toys.• That villages become global is a worldwide illusion.

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What is Technology?• From Technos + logos >>> Technology

Energy output

Technology <=> Materials + Know-how Energy input Tools devices

• Neither good nor bad; process of production:Technology convers materials and energies.

• Cost and benefit depends on purpose / policy• İn Agriculture and Industry it was production • Gobalisation use technology for consumption.


Sustainability of Growth or Life ?

• Big Powers (G8) strive for economic groqwth • Habitat meetings stand for life and survival !• “Global Village” ought to choose one:

Wealth or Well being (Survival)• Media stands for wealth, science for Life• Teknology can serve both! Q : Which one? • Right and responsibility rest on mankino!• Q: Who, What, How, When, Where ?• Do Mankind have a common mind, purpose?


Dichotomies of the Global VillageAtatürk’s Valid Premises

• İndividual - Society• Creation-Evoluttion• Nature-Man• Real-İdeal• War - Peace• Man -Women• Material or Moral• Culture-Technology


What Brand of Education ?• İnstead learn and do

Learning by doing• Not everything , whatever

Teach it well from pre school for life long

• Don’t teach answers Teach valid questions

• Relations rather than causes

• Chaos rather than cosmos

• Teach society, exisence and virtue of “know thyself”

Administration

Students Teachers

PROGRAM

Plant Resources

Star Model valid for all levels Programmesr do differ !


Man-Society- Education-Culture(Concept : Tylor 1871, Model :Güvenç 1972)• Culture/ Civilisation

Concepts of Anthropology• Members of society create

and learn culture through education.

• Culturre in turn greate man by education

• İnteraction by education• Progress by education

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Intersection of Culture Ball How everything is attached to everything else?

GÜVENÇ 1974

KÜLTÜR YUMAGI

KÜLTÜRLERARAS‹

Tarih ve Töre Doga ve Çevre Habitat

Bilim ve Sanatlar Din ve Devlet

Egitim & Ögretim Education

Aile-Soy- Sop,Sagl›k

Yerlesmeler Köy Kasaba Kent ve Metropoller

Ekonomi- Teknoloji Tarim Endüstri Hizmetler

INSAN & MEDYA MEDYAA


Premises for the Future EducationBy Edgar Morin ve Poet Yunus Emre

• Search for biased info and eliminate them• Develop those that are rational and valid

• Get acquainted with existence, environment • Our globe may be unique in the cosmos.• Prepare for a future unknown.• Purpose : Question, reflect and comprehend• First Priority: “Know thyself”• Yunus Emre “Sciençe is to know thyself’!”


References Cited in the Presentation

• Aristoteles,Politics, vııı. 2• D’Holbach, Système de la

Nature. 1770. • Hartmann, N. Die Neue

Wege der Ontologie, 1945.

• Locke, An Essay on... Understanding. 1700.

• Magee, B. Story of • Philosophy 2000.• Güvenç. B. A-B-C of

Culture 2007.

• Morin, E. For the Future . Education 2003.

• Phenix, Philosophies of Education. 1961.

• Turner, G.F. “Design for a Academy.” Dialogue 1987.

• Tylor, E. Primitive Culture. 1871.

• Wallerstein, I. The End of World as we know it.2000.

• Greenspan A. The Age of Turbulence, 2007


Bozkurt Güvenç ( A Resume)• Mimar, insanbilimci, eğitimci. Hacettepe'nin kuruluşunda görev aldı.• Temel Bilimler Yüksek Okulu, Nüfus Etütleri ve Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsünde

kurucu üye olarak çalıştı: nsan ve Kültür.İ • Wilson bursuyla ABD'de, Japon Vakfının bursuyla Tokyo Üniversitesi’nde

araştırmalar yaptı: Japon Kültürü! • 1969'da doçent, 1977'de profesör, 1993'te emekli oldu. • Türk Sosyal Bilimler Derneği Başkanlığı, UNESCO Türkiye Milli

Komisyonu üyeliği, Başbakanlık Kültür Müsteşarlığı ve Cumhurbaşkanlık danışmanlığı gibi görevlerde bulundu.

• Dördü yabancı dillere çevrilmiş 32 kadar kitabı, beş çevrisi, yüzü aşkın araştırma, bildiri ve makalesi yayımlandı.

• Türk Kimli i’ğ nin İngilizce özeti “Öteki” 2006 yılinda yayımlandı.• TÜBA şeref üyesi olan Güvenç, Yeditepe Üniversitesinde ders

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