This tendency is inevitably present and offers the global population another wide area for rethinking old assumptions and attitudes. This study seeks to examine some of these processes by looking at the structure of the scientific enterprise and the points at which more significant inputs can be made by the users of technology. The developing world is the largest eventual consumer of science and technology. In studying ways of deriving the maximum benefit from science and technology, we ought particularly to consider the needs of the developing world and the impediments to technological development. The problems are numerous.
Attitudes have to be altered, priorities determined, new procedures and structures fashioned.
Ethical codes for scientists need to be developed, attitudes of resignation and lack of participation in matters technological need to be corrected. Assumptions that Western technology is synonymous with progress need to be revised. This volume is of course only a preliminary study. It does not aim at providing solutions but rather at setting the background for further studies and helping to identify areas requiring more scholarly effort. Its intention is not to chart out new extensions of human rights but, rather, to find ways and means of implementing existing human rights norms within the changing context of rapid scientific and technological progress.