1. Güvenç Talk at Dikmen, '08 1
Global Technology
Bozkurt Güvenç
Talk at Dikmen Lodge
Handout Notes
Ankara 6 March 2008

2. Güvenç Talk at Dikmen, '082
Online: Key Concepts
• Modern, Postmodern, “Most-Modern” Times…
• “Globalisation” and “Global Village”
• Business at the Village complex or complicated
• Revolution called “İnformation Technology” (IT)?
• Global Economy uses Technology for consumption
• Sustainable Growth or sustainable life on earth?
• Dychotomies of Global Village vs Kemalism!
• Education but how? Morin’s Prescription for future
• References cited
• Author’s CV (Resume)

3. Güvenç Talk at Dikmen, '083
• After Renessance all arts became modern
• After WW2 they have become postmodern
• Nowadays we pass to “most-modern” stage
• We don’t understand what happens.Keep hearing
“Anything goes” and “everything happens!”
• We watch the Globe on Screen and accept it
• Any and most changes taken as
development ???
• Change is a prerequisite of developmet but
• All changes ara not necessarily development
• Tyes. Time for decision! but who will decide?
Modern: Postmodern, Mostmodern !

4. Güvenç Talk at Dikmen, '084
Globalisation and Global Villlage
• Spaceship called Earth was always a globe
Thru Globalization it becomes “Global Village”
• Bounds, restrictions. costums are being lifted,
Goods, humans, ideas freely circulata-almost
Every one can talk to eveyone else on earth
• “ The end of the world es we know it. Future?
• İnformation society will end all conflict and start
the peace and order for globe…We’re told.
• We want and have to believe. No option.

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E’ ben semplice: tutto e complicato:
“Just Complicated” –Commedia dell’ Arte.
Selections from the other side of Medallion:
Life in the village is getting harder, tougher.
• Villagers become alienated from the Globe
• Cleavage yawns wider between haves and nots
• Nation states erode; national interests grow
• Consumption technology consumes the Globe.
• The global surounds the village qeueing for Visa
• “İnformation Society” built by “Globalised Media”

6. Güvenç Talk at Dikmen, '086
Global Trends in IT:
Processes of Change in Education and Culture
+ Rising + — Falling —
• Media Education
• Celebrities Virtues
• Rights Tasks
• Technology Sciences
• İndividual Social
• Power Justice There are Others…

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Consumption Economy and Technology
• Affluent consumer societies using high technologies
deplete and exhausts the Globe.
• Media, employing technology , globalize “free market” and
presents international capital as “globalisation!”
• Globalisation process serving the capitalist interests
was a “Gross Disappointment” (Stiglitz,Nobel)
• Developed World (Business) using Media and high tech,
hide the hardl facts of the W o r l d C l o c k.
• Wje are advised solutions are in the teknology.
• Meantime we are happy playing with technological toys.
• That villages become global is a worldwide illusion.

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What is Technology?
• From Technos + logos >>> Technology
 Energy output
Technology <=> Materials + Know-how
Energy input  Tools  devices
• Neither good nor bad; process of production:
Technology convers materials and energies.
• Cost and benefit depends on purpose / policy
• İn Agriculture and Industry it was production
• Gobalisation use technology for consumption.

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Sustainability of Growth or Life ?
• Big Powers (G8) strive for economic groqwth
• Habitat meetings stand for life and survival !
• “Global Village” ought to choose one:
Wealth or Well being (Survival)
• Media stands for wealth, science for Life
• Teknology can serve both! Q : Which one?
• Right and responsibility rest on mankino!
• Q: Who, What, How, When, Where ?
• Do Mankind have a common mind, purpose?

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Dichotomies of the Global Village
Atatürk’s Valid Premises
• İndividual - Society
• Creation-Evoluttion
• Nature-Man
• Real-İdeal
• War - Peace
• Man -Women
• Material or Moral
• Culture-Technology

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What Brand of Education ?
• İnstead learn and do
Learning by doing
• Not everything , whatever
Teach it well from pre
school for life long
• Don’t teach answers
Teach valid questions
• Relations rather than
causes
• Chaos rather than
cosmos
• Teach society, exisence and
virtue of “know thyself”
Administration
Students Teachers
PROGRAM
Plant Resources
Star Model valid for all levels
Programmesr do differ !

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Man-Society- Education-Culture
(Concept : Tylor 1871, Model :Güvenç 1972)
• Culture/ Civilisation
Concepts of Anthropology
• Members of society create
and learn culture through
education.
• Culturre in turn greate man
by education
• İnteraction by education
• Progress by education
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Intersection of Culture Ball
How everything is attached to everything else?
GÜVENÇ 1974
KÜLTÜR YUMAGI
KÜLTÜRLERARAS‹
Tarih ve
Töre
Doga ve
Çevre
Habitat
Bilim ve
Sanatlar
Din ve
Devlet
Egitim &
Ögretim
Education
Aile-Soy-
Sop,Sagl›k
Yerlesmeler
Köy
Kasaba
Kent ve
Metropoller
Ekonomi-
Teknoloji
Tarim
Endüstri
Hizmetler
INSAN &
MEDYA
MEDYAA

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Premises for the Future Education
By Edgar Morin ve Poet Yunus Emre
• Search for biased info and eliminate them
• Develop those that are rational and valid
• Get acquainted with existence, environment
• Our globe may be unique in the cosmos.
• Prepare for a future unknown.
• Purpose : Question, reflect and comprehend
• First Priority: “Know thyself”
• Yunus Emre “Sciençe is to know thyself’!”

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References Cited in the Presentation
• Aristoteles,Politics, vııı. 2
• D’Holbach, Système de la
Nature. 1770.
• Hartmann, N. Die Neue
Wege der Ontologie,
1945.
• Locke, An Essay on...
Understanding. 1700.
• Magee, B. Story of
• Philosophy 2000.
• Güvenç. B. A-B-C of
Culture 2007.
• Morin, E. For the Future .
Education 2003.
• Phenix, Philosophies of
Education. 1961.
• Turner, G.F. “Design for a
Academy.” Dialogue
1987.
• Tylor, E. Primitive Culture.
1871.
• Wallerstein, I. The End of
World as we know it.2000.
• Greenspan A. The Age of
Turbulence, 2007

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Bozkurt Güvenç ( A Resume)
• Mimar, insanbilimci, eğitimci. Hacettepe'nin kuruluşunda görev aldı.
• Temel Bilimler Yüksek Okulu, Nüfus Etütleri ve Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsünde
kurucu üye olarak çalıştı: nsan ve Kültür.İ
• Wilson bursuyla ABD'de, Japon Vakfının bursuyla Tokyo Üniversitesi’nde
araştırmalar yaptı: Japon Kültürü!
• 1969'da doçent, 1977'de profesör, 1993'te emekli oldu.
• Türk Sosyal Bilimler Derneği Başkanlığı, UNESCO Türkiye Milli
Komisyonu üyeliği, Başbakanlık Kültür Müsteşarlığı ve Cumhurbaşkanlık
danışmanlığı gibi görevlerde bulundu.
• Dördü yabancı dillere çevrilmiş 32 kadar kitabı, beş çevrisi, yüzü aşkın
araştırma, bildiri ve makalesi yayımlandı.
• Türk Kimli i’ğ nin İngilizce özeti “Öteki” 2006 yılinda yayımlandı.
• TÜBA şeref üyesi olan Güvenç, Yeditepe Üniversitesinde ders
veriyor, bazı süreli dergi ve yayınlara denemeler yazıyor.
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