scholarly journals Imperfections in Our Future

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-212
Author(s):  
Adriana Vinţean
Keyword(s):  
Co2 Emissions ◽  
Lower Risk ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Technological Environment ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Future ◽  
Evolution Of Technology ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Risk Potential

AbstractOur future is polarized and unpredictable and means progress as this regards the evolution of technology that may bring about the union between man and machine as far as the present technological environment is enlarging. But, until then we have to face imperfections that are synonymous with the problems that affect humanity: aggression against some states, conflicts that need to be settled, discrepancy between the rich and the poor, the positive and negative influences of the internet, CO2 emissions in developed countries, redirecting towards markets with lower risk potential, even the battle with death. And, unfortunately we have the alienation of the modern man in a breakable world. We know that the future can become what we wish it to be as far as we have a purpose and positive outlooks and take the correct decisions.

scholarly journals INAPPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY What Is in It for the Rich?

2007 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 487-518 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANA FERNANDES ◽  
KRISHNA B. KUMAR
Keyword(s):  
Green Revolution ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Welfare Effects ◽  
Luxury Good ◽  
Rich Region ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Poor Region ◽  
Inferior Good ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Local Use

In this paper, we investigate incentives, other than altruism, that developed countries have for improving developing country technologies. We propose a simple model of international trade between two regions, in which individuals have preferences over an inferior good and a luxury good. The poor region has a comparative advantage in the production of the inferior good. Even when costly adaptation of the technology to the poor region's characteristics is required—making the technology inappropriate for local use—there are parameter configurations for which the rich region has an incentive to incur this cost. It benefits from a terms-of-trade improvement and from greater specialization in the luxury good. Indeed, there are cases where the rich region would prefer to improve the poor region's technology for producing the inferior good rather than its own. We apply our model to the Green Revolution and provide a quantitative assessment of its welfare effects.

Order in Cyberspace Can Only Be Maintained with a Combination of Ethics and Technology

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Perry Barlow ◽  
Adolfo Plasencia
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Global Culture ◽  
Ethics And Technology ◽  
The Poor ◽  
World Power ◽  
Electronic Frontier ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Internet Revolution ◽  
John Perry

John Perry Barlow starts the dialogue explaining the reasons that led him to draw up and disclose his Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, in Davos. He then discusses why he believes that people who use the term ‘intellectual property’ have got the wrong idea about it, and puts forward his ideas about frontiers in general and in particular the electronic frontier. He deliberates on whether the Economy of Ideas is capitalist, socialist or Marxist, and whether it should be supervised by someone or not. He also explains why cyberspace has still not been dominated by any world power, and explores the contradiction of why the differences between the rich and the poor have increased considerably since the onset of the global Internet revolution, what the cause of this is, and what has happened to all the hopes placed in the Internet by the underprivileged. Finally, he talks about how the structure of local cultures in cyberspace and their relationship with the global culture of the Internet is evolving.

A Study on the Economic Benefits of Globalization: Focusing on the Poverty and Inequality between the Rich and the Poor

2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sang-Hyup Shin
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Global Poverty ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Poverty And Inequality ◽  
The World ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Developed Countries

Globalization is now well recognized by many as an inescapable feature of the world today. In particular, in the middle of global economic crisis globalization is one of the hot issues drawing much attention from countries around the world. There are contradictory perspectives on globalization. There are many sweeping statements that assert that economic globalization is increasing global poverty and inequality between the rich and the poor in the world. There are also many others who insist that the poverty and inequality issues have been resolved in some sense through globalization. In order to find the answer to the question, firstly the meaning of globalization was fully explained. Based on the understanding of globalization, the questions such as how globalization has contributed to reduce the economic gap between the developed and the developing countries, and to reduce the poverty by analyzing the economic growth, the number of people living below the absolute poverty line and so on were analyzed. The reasons why globalization is a good opportunity for some countries while some other countries get not something from the globalization was also discussed in this research. We found that globalization has contributed to reduce global poverty and to increase the welfare of both the developed and developing countries. However globalization has impacted different groups differently. Some have benefited enormously, while others have borne more of the costs. The developed countries could get more economic benefits from the less developed countries through globalization. This means, inequality between the rich and the poor countries still remained as a serious threat in the global economy. And even among the developing countries globalization has impacted differently. The trends toward faster growth and poverty reduction are strongest in developing economies that have integrated with the global economy most rapidly, which supports the view that integration has been a positive force for improving the lives of people in developing countries There are two main reasons for the inequality existing between the developed and developing countries. The fist one is the difference of economic size and power between the developed countries and the developing countries started to exist from the late 18th century. The second one is the differences in the management skill in taking advantage of the globalization.

scholarly journals Life Style Education: Are We Prepared for Changes?

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Qismullah Yusuf
Keyword(s):  
Education System ◽  
Life Style ◽  
Sudden Change ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Change Of Life

The public should be aware of the sudden change of life style of some people that makes their life completely different from their previous ones. All of us must be ready to face any circumstances from this manifestation in the future.  The rich, wealthy and famous should be made aware that that type of life style is not wrong, but they should also be taught how to follow a normal way of life. Proper guidance and counselling on how to live normally needs to be provided with especially designed lectures and classes. Bringing these “students” to remote villages where the poor and the disadvantaged live may help them to understand the hardships of life around them. Having a short intern period within such a community will help them further understand the real life of the majority in their country. Furthermore, if they are always taught in an environment of luxury and are never faced with a normal education system and style of life, a major problem arises: if, in the future, our country is led by such graduates, who never went through our normal education system or lived a normal style of life, how can they understand and lead the majority in our country? This paper discusses this phenomenon.

Reflections on the Dark Side of ICT4D

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Unwin
Keyword(s):  
Cyber Security ◽  
Internet Access ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Surface Web ◽  
The Internet Of Things ◽  
Dark Web

Technology is all too often seen as being inherently good, and there are powerful interests limiting the amount of attention paid to the darker side of ICTs and Internet access in particular. However, these darker aspects are crucial to understanding ICT4D, especially since they can more seriously impact the poor, both countries and people, than the rich. The following main challenges are covered in the chapter: privacy and security; the Surface Web and the Dark Web; cyber-security and resilience; negative aspects of the exploitation of Big Data and the abuse of people through social media; and the increasing dehumanization of people through the use of ICTs and the Internet of Things.

Classifying the LDCs

Worldview ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 23 (11) ◽  
pp. 23-25
Author(s):  
William C. Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Popular Press ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Visual Evidence ◽  
The World ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Aid Programs ◽  
Communist Countries ◽  
Developed World

For a full generation the world, like Gaul, has been divided into three parts, the rich, the poor, and the Communists. Scholars and bureaucrats have devised these economic categories, calling them the developed world, the Communist countries, and the less developed countries (LDCs). In the last few years, however, these classifications have been bursting at the seams of their logic. Even the man in the street is beginning to wonder why such nations as Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Argentina, and Brazil are still "poor" LDCs and thus eligible for various aid programs. Visual evidence of their burgeoning wealth is available on TV and in the popular press. Yet the list of developed countries remains the same. It seems no one ever gets promoted.

Food, Race and Working-Class Identity:Restaurantes Popularesand Populism in 1930s Peru

2005 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulo Drinot
Keyword(s):  
Military Officers ◽  
Urgent Problem ◽  
Sweet Potatoes ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Healthy Nutrition ◽  
The People ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Popular Classes ◽  
The Military

… And tell me, which President looked to the future? It was, believe it or not, [Sánchez] Cerro. I fully recognize that he was able to look to the future and … he grabbed the rich [by the neck] and took part of their wealth, you there [he said], you’re going to give me potatoes, you’re going to give me yucca, you’re going to give me sweet potatoes, he told them, to feed the poor neighborhoods, you bring me rice, meat, you tell me you have five hundred cows, well then, kill only five cows, otherwise, slash-slash, I’m going to snuff you too, and then, no!, you have to do what Nine-Fingers [Sánchez Cerro—who lost one of his fingers during a military uprising] says. He was a strange president. What did he do? He’d bring out the military officers, the soldiers, [and he would say] you here, you’re going to cook, and he’d go off with the trucks to the poor neighborhoods with the food, all ready to eat, the people should not be dying of hunger he would say, buthe saw that that too was indecent, so he built the comedores populares[sic]. Who inaugurated them? One-eyed Oscar R. Benavides, but who started them? [Sánchez] Cerro [my emphasis].This article examines the creation, in the 1930s, of restaurants, known asrestaurantes populares,which were funded and run by the Peruvian state in order to “solve the urgent problem of [the provision of] easy, comfortable and healthy nutrition to the popular classes.”

scholarly journals SOCIAL SATIRE ON HIGHER EDUCATION: A COMPARATIVE STRUCTURAL SEMIOTIC STUDY OF THE MOVIES ALANGKAH LUCUNYA (NEGERI INI) AND PARASITE

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yulianeta Yulianeta ◽  
Rosmah Tami
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Common Belief ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The Rich

It is commonly believed that obtaining a higher education is one way to elevate people's social class. Two movies, the Indonesian film Alangkah Lucunya (Negeri Ini) ALNI (2010) and the Korean Parasite (PR) (2019), challenge this common belief. The two movies criticize higher education by conveying the message in satire. To unveil the meaning of the two movies' social satires, this study used Roland Barthes's structural semiotic analysis on five primary codes to explore the codes that regulate the structure of the narrative of the text (film) to find similarities and differences of their focus of criticism regarding higher education. The use of satiric form to contrast and juxtapose the rich and the poor, and the educated and uneducated shows that both Alangkah Lucunya (Negeri Ini)  and Parasite uncover the influence of neoliberalism in the formal educational system that gives an impact to both lower and higher class, either in developed countries or developing countries. The satire content is intended to attract attention and to inspire people to move to change the situation.

scholarly journals Coronavirus Environment vs Socio-Economic and Demographic Problems Followed: A Sociological Appraisal

SIASAT ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Mohammad Taghi Sheykhi
Keyword(s):  
Child Labor ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The People ◽  
Library Resources ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Almost All

The paper searches the cause and effect impacts of the newly-found Coronavirus. The word "Corona" is currently used by all the people (7.7 billion) over the age of at least 3. The unprecedented disease is reflecting a large number of effects infecting and killing many people of the rich and the poor. The new phenomenon is continuing rapidly. It brings about recessions and closures in many businesses, and laying off many employees and workers, and that has created income and security problems for the families. The new environment has imprisoned families inside homes disrupting them from the normal and regular interactions. Such people are getting frustrated indoors. The people confined at home are usually exposed and vulnerable to psychological disorders. Almost all those at school age, are banned to attend schools and higher educational institutions at all levels. So, the educational institution is also losing a lot. The new phenomenon needs sociological appraisal from various viewpoints. What is currently happening, will create problems in post-Corona age. One of the problems that will demographically impact the world nations is "migration". Many people of the poor countries will move to more developed countries where they hope to earn their living. So, social demographers need to mind the future scenario. Poor economies will not easily be able to rehabilitate and reconstruct themselves. That is why a large migration wave will be quite likely to occur. Similarly, many countries will face increasing child labor and street children because of shortage of employment for the adults. The method of research used in the present research is of qualitative type--collecting the data through library resources and other media. Findings prove that everybody is exposed to being affected, infected and killed through the Coronavirus.

scholarly journals Maternal Abortifacient use for Clandestine Abortion

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 663-672 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana L. Hopson ◽  
Jennifer Ross
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Clinical Setting ◽  
Pregnancy Termination ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The United States ◽  
Clinical Staff ◽  
Medical Examiner ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Future ◽  
At Home

Abortion is a highly debated topic. In the United States and other developed countries, the vast majority of abortions performed are done in a clinical setting or under the supervision of clinical staff. However, clandestine abortions still occur. Previously published reports have described clandestine abortions performed using crude and often dangerous methods. In the United States, published reports on the clandestine use of medications for abortions is rare. We report a series of cases in which maternal use of misoprostol and or a combination of misoprostol and mifepristone was used or suspected to have been used for the purpose of at-home pregnancy termination. These medications, purchased from Internet sites, were believed to have been shipped from countries outside of the United States. With ready accessibility to and increased prevalence of these sites on the Internet, it is likely that maternal abortifacient use will become more common in the future. This paper will provide guidance for the investigation and workup of these cases that come to the attention of the medical examiner or coroner.

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