Growth is a common word, used repeatedly by governments of ‘developing countries’ to measure progress. By growth, one can imply economic growth or population growth or consumption growth. Growth is usually measured at national level by the GDP – Gross Domestic Product, which is the total values of the goods and services a country produces. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Problem definition’
Understanding exponential growth
Posted in Environmental Concept, Introspection, tagged Environment, Growth, Philosophy, Problem definition on December 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The ’special’ dilemma
Posted in Education, Ideology, Introspection, tagged Environment, Holistic approach, Interdisciplinary sciences, Philosophy, Problem definition, Specialists on November 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
During my final year at medical college a professor made a joke “Soon we will reach such a high level of specialization that there will be a ‘Left index finger’ surgeon”. Of course we all laughed at the idea.
Through ever increasing number of ‘experiments’ and ‘research’ there is now so much literature and technique that each subject [...]
