近代化의 苦悶과 將來 = The Agony and The Future of Modernization

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This paper examined various fields about The Agony and The Future of Modernization and it was summarized as follows.
① The process of modernization, which began in Italy in the fifteenth century and spread to most of the West over the following five hundred years, is now world-wide. Whether we describe this contemporary process as the “breaking down of tradition”or as the “revolution of rising expectation”, it is apparent that poeple demand and are experiencing change at a pace and of a magnitude for which there are few, if any, historical parallels.
The achievements of man in the modern age provide unprecedented opportunities for human welfare and fulfillment, but they have also placed in the hands of man instruments of universal destruction. If only for their own preservation, men must sd아 a correct understanding of the modern age and support the values and institutions best suited to the interests and welfare of all mankind.
② The rapid emergence of the subject of future, it also explodes all our convential ideas about ending poverty on the planet.
We need transnational food stockpiles and“hot spot”disasterrelief organizations. We need consortia and teams of nongovernmental organizations to attack various global problems.
We must speed the construction of strong transnational agencies for governing outer space and the oceans. We shall have to overhaul the ossified, bureaucratic United Nations from the ground floor up.
③ Modernization is the central task of mankind and that one can foresee the time then highly technology will make possible an era of material abundance for all. The F¨uture of Modernization, must and will draw on an amazing variety of energy sources-hydrogen, solar, geothermal, tidal, lightning discharges, ultimately perhaps advanced fusion power, as well as other energy sources not yet imagined in the nowadays.
④ This new civilization, as it challenges the old, it could-with great intelligent help from us-turn out to be the first truly humane civilization in recorded history.