THE NEED FOR A LOGICALLY PLANNED WORLD

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

As we all know, various forms of scientific knowledge, and the forces and instrumentalities created thereby, can be used constructively or destructively.  It is also obvious to all of us that rivalry and conflict, such as regularly occurs among nation-states, hampers the development of scientific advances, and/or causes them to be developed for hostile and destructive purposes.  Furthermore, where scientific and technological activities are carried on competitively, and therefore often under pressure, undetected incompetence, as well as error caused by excessive haste, can lead to unpredictable rresults that could be disastrous.  Additionally, two states carrying on the same programs in competition with one another must constitute a measure of wasteful duplication in manpower, material, and resources.

Like everything else spoken about by me here, the scientific community also--and perhaps
especially--needs to be united in a global fashion, so as to be enabled to direct its efforts and pursuits toward the benefit of mankind, rather than toward competitive activities on behalf of respective nation-states, for potential use against one another.  Such activities ought be approached and conducted calmly and sensibly, on behalf of, and for the benefit of, all of humanity--rather than in the interest of one nation, in order to give it an advantage over other nations, with whom it may be in conflict--or worse, at war.  Scientific research and endeavor, and their resultant achievements, thus carried on and arrived at in an atmosphere of calm effort to discover answers and improvements--and not in an effort to "beat the other guy"--can and will produce more and greater achievements, and consequent reward to humanity.

It is thus self-evident that, if carried on for common beneficial purposes, and not in efforts to threaten and destroy a potential or actual enemy, our scientific community can provide us with a future that will be an era of sufficiency and comfort--rather than a grotesque nightmare of danger and destruction.

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