Year: 1998
Type: article
Abstract: What kinds of people are most apt to survive and to thrive in the world as it will be in the future?This is clearly not an academic question, but one which is very important for anyone who has to live in a rapidly changing world, a world whose likeness has not been seen before.As time surges relentlessly forward, new vistas are opening up which require humans to be able to chart their own course, lest they be driven to and fro by forces they cannot control.Examples of these new and emerging vistas are numerous.One of them is the emergence of the global computer net work which connects millions together in a way hardly conceivable in the past.Humans can now communicate and participate in activities which span the globe in virtually no time at all.They can obtain and transmit information at their fingertips, from their computers, which are becoming ubiquitous.Another example is the apparently paradoxical trend to localism amidst the tide of globalization.As the world' s cultures are becoming more and more similar, at least in outward 1 An earlier version of this paper was presented at the First Srinakharinwirot Round Table on the Humanities Agenda-"The Humanities in a Braver and Newer World: Future Mission and New Vision," July 17
Source: Manusya Journal of Humanities
Author: Soraj Hongladarom
Institution: Chulalongkorn University
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2943989882