The strategy described in the present paper offers details about the possibility for Brazil to play a more substantial role in the gene revolution. If successfully applied, the powerful science-based technology currently available in Brazil can contribute to extend the benefits of the gene revolution to the poorest countries, very much like the Green Revolution did in the past, thereby reducing...

Great Society. By Arthur Radford, Professor of Social Administration, University of Nottingham. Published by the National Council of Social Service, 26 Bedford Square, W.C.I. 19 pp. 2s. In a short but very comprehensive pamphlet, Professor Radford describes the revolution which in the past forty years " has turned from assistance to insurance and from insurance to assurance ", and the fundament...

The Industrial Revolution-a Useful Abstraction In the past years, there have been more and more voices that claim, to rephrase Coleman (1983), that the Industrial Revolution is "a concept too many." 2 The feeling is that the term is either too vague to be of any use at all or that it produces false connotations of abrupt change comparable in its suddenness to the French Revolution. The main int...

Higher education in the fourth industrial revolution (HE 4.0) is a complex, dialectical and exciting opportunity which can potentially transform society for the better. The fourth industrial revolution is powered by artificial intelligence and it will transform the workplace from tasks based characteristics to the human centred characteristics. Because of the convergence of man and machine, it ...