Special Issue on Globalization: Current Challenges and Future Prospects

摘要

This volume of the International Journal of Technoethics seeks to address a wide range of problems and issues arising from or exacerbated by globalization processes. The articles it includes aim to clarify a range of salient globalization processes, the variety of factors that contribute to causing them, and the problems and issues they raise, as well as to provide suggestions for addressing them. This approach contrasts with traditionally narrow-for example, merely economic ormerely political-ways of conceiving of globalization, the problems and issues it poses, and the available ways of responding to them-which, as current events make it plain, have not been successful. In adopting a wider perspective, this volume conceives of globalization as the spreading interconnectedness of business, science, technology, politics, and culture through large regions or the entirety of the world, and of globalization processes as not uniform and not merely economic and political but also resulting from technological, scientific, and cultural factors.