Unesco and the International Council on Sciences jointly sponsored a “World Conference for Science” last year, which took place in Budapest from June 26th to July 1st. The ambition was to define priorities for the twenty-first century.
Dominique Chouchan gives a brief out-look on the summit and some of its highlights: the drastic North-South imbalance, the privatization of research and its consequent conversion to ends that are sometimes quite remote from the most fundamental human needs.
Cet article fait partie de la revue Futuribles n° 245, sept. 1999
