IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Globalization is the historical concept of our time which has brought a tremendous change in the present scenario. Although the concept of globalization is not a new concept, nor has the process of globalization come about suddenly, according to Nayan Chanda, former editor of For Eastern Economic Review - "The construction of Borobudur temple is a proof of the process of globalization in 840 AD. When Javanese artists engraved the teachings of Buddhism in India. ”Then Alexander the Great to Genghis Khan and Napoleon Made supreme efforts of Mr. globalization. The process of globalization accelerated from the middle of the nineteenth century until the start of the First World War. भूमण्डलीकरण हमारे समय की ऐतिहासिक अवधारणा है जिसने वर्तमान परिदृश्य में विस्मयकारी परिवर्तन किया है। वैसे भूमण्डलीकरण की अवधारणा कोई नई अवधारणा नहीं है और न ही भूमण्डलीकरण की प्रक्रिया ही अकस्मात् आयी है, फाॅर ईस्टर्न इकाॅनामिक रिव्यू के पूर्व संपादक नयन चन्दा के अनुसार - ‘‘बोरोबुदूर मंदिर का निर्माण भूमण्डलीकरण की प्रक्रिया के 840 ई. में होने का प्रमाण है जब भारत बौद्ध धर्म की शिक्षाओं को जावावासी कलाकारों ने दीवारों पर उकेरा।’’ फिर सिकन्दर महान से लेकर चंगेज खाँ और नेपोलियन ने भी भूमण्डलीकरण की दिशा में सर्वोच्च प्रयास किये। भूमण्डलीकरण की प्रक्रिया उन्नीसवीं सदी के मध्य से प्रथम विश्वयुद्ध के आरंभ तक त्वरित रही।

New Shanghai: The Rocky Rebirth of China's Legendary City. By Pamela Yatsko. [New York: John Wiley, 2001. viii+298pp. Hard cover ISBN 0-471-84352-0; paperback ISBN 0-471-47915-2.]

As an admitted Shanghai chauvinist, I look forward to reading books dealing with the city where I studied more than two decades ago, particularly ones such as this which promise a rather comprehensive overview of the Shanghai scene at the turn of the millennium. Pamela Yatsko served as Far Eastern Economic Review bureau chief there in the mid-to-late 1990s, and obviously knows the city and its people well. She shared, as I did, their frustration throughout the 1980s as they watched cities such as Hong Kong become world economic powers (spearheaded by Shanghainese refugees), and backwaters such as Shenzhen, which barely existed until the 1980s, attract global attention for their explosive growth. And she cannot avoid being struck by the rapidity with which Shanghai rebuilt itself once Beijing gave the green light after Deng Xiaoping's 1992 visit.

Better out than in?

The Far Eastern Economic Review has been virtually banned from Singapore — like Time, Asiaweek, and the Asia Wall St Journal. Its editor Derek Davies accuses Singapore of breaking its pledge; Lee Kuan Yew is suing. Meanwhile The Economist and US News & World Report are leaving. What's happening?