Interesante el articulo de Steven Weinberg Ligia. Saludos, Carlos -----Original Message----- From: Ligia Parra-Esteban To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Perdomo, Dr. German; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 1/15/00 9:21 AM Subject: r-caldas: Cinco Utopias y Media. Hola. En lo que sigue en el tiempo les deseo a todos lo mejor. Es muy grato diseminar entre ustedes, tomado de otras listas electronicas, un brillante conjunto textos sobre las Utopias del siglo y el milenio pasado, ahora que estrenamos a�o, siglo y milenio. La de abajo es una hermosa pagina con multiples textos y autores de utopias y anti-utopias y el magnifico articulo, Five and a Half Utopias, del premio Nobel de Fisica 1979, Steven Weinberg. Weinberg es autor de libros como The First Three Minutes (1977) y Dreams of a Final Theory (1992). <http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/current/001weinberg.htm> En esta estupenda pagina uno encuentra los textos de LA REPUBLICA de Platon, UTOPIA de Tomas Moro, LOOKING BACKWARD de Edward Bellamy, y tambien literatura sobre Anti-Utopias como BRAVE NEW WORLD de Aldoux Huxley y 1984 de George Orwels. ?Y las utopias del Siglo 21? La Utopia del Libre Mercado. La Utopia del Mejor y el Mas Inteligente. La Utopia Religiosa. La Utopia Verde. La Utopia Tecnologica. La Utopia del Capitalismo Civilizado e Igualitario. ?Cual de estas seis es la media utopia? Cordialmente. Ligia ---------------------------------------------------- Analyzing 21st-century utopias Socialism may have given utopias a bad name, but that hasn't stopped the next generation of dreamers from conceiving of 21st-century ideal societies of their own, writes the physicist Steven Weinberg. The 1979 Nobelist, who is now at the University of Texas at Austin, turns a cautious and critical eye on five utopian ideals that he envisions may emerge in the new century, and that he predicts will, like their predecessors, all be doomed. In the Free-Market Utopia, for example, hands-on government would remove barriers to free enterprise and be relegated to a policing role. But, cautions Mr. Weinberg, when the mighty dollar gained irreversible strength, equality and civilization would be wiped out, deemed cost-inefficient. Another of the five, the Technological Utopia, is a world in which national borders would blur amid the backdrop of fiber-optic cables that connect all corners of the world. In such a world, Mr. Weinberg writes, technology would replace the need for the worker, stripping man of what Freud calls one of his two greatest needs (the other being love). Mr. Weinberg offers his own alternative -- the Civilized Egalitarian Capitalist Utopia, in which business and culture would be synthesized through cross-investments, and a democratic government -- itself checked by independent courts -- would encourage production, competition, and donations to nonprofit institutions. His own "modest" vision aside, Mr. Weinberg recognizes that there is "no simple formula that will tell us how to strike a balance between the dangers from governing elites and those from majority rule or free markets, or between the opportunities and the hazards of new technology." The article is available online at: <http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/current/001weinberg.htm> >From the Atlantic Monthly" magazine. ========================================================== --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ligia Parra-Esteban Directora Fundacion VOC de Investigacion de la Comunicacion Entre Cientificos Ciudad Universitaria. Unidad Camilo Torres. http://www.mox.uniandes.edu.co/voc Apartado Aereo 86745 Bogota. Colombia Telefono (+) 571-2530489 Fax (+) 571-6139654 E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================== ===== Si necesita retirarse de la lista envie un mensaje a: [EMAIL PROTECTED] con una unica linea : unsubscribe r-caldas Para inscribirse en la lista envie un mensaje a [EMAIL PROTECTED] con una unica linea : subscribe r-caldas Los mensajes que circulan en la lista los puede consultar en : http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] ============================================================================= Si necesita retirarse de la lista envie un mensaje a: [EMAIL PROTECTED] con una unica linea : unsubscribe r-caldas Para inscribirse en la lista envie un mensaje a [EMAIL PROTECTED] con una unica linea : subscribe r-caldas Los mensajes que circulan en la lista los puede consultar en : http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
