The Mankind Growth Consistency: Outlook on Political Sceneries

The international stability is viewed as corollary of the sustainable growth. This has only technology-driven solution, at global village extension, with required appropriateness and shared acceptation. The survey, on such guess, looks at the robot age potential, as supplementary aid in the balanced world deployment that adds to the socio-economic and politico-legal frames. The analysis moves from the globalisation issues, at the known (economic) global and (ecologic) no-global pictures, to outline the traits of the post-global robot age, consistent with the sustainable growth, international stability, and grounded on the force of the law. Stability based on the law of the force was the past option, even allowing steady truces. In this analysis, globalisation makes this choice unfit, having doubtful economic and social sustainability and not achieving ecologic sustainability consistently and for the long term. DOI: 10.4018/irmj.2012040105 70 Information Resources Management Journal, 25(2), 69-84, April-June 2012 Copyright © 2012, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. native picture of the world to come, where the modelling of the knowledge society features and annexed robotic aids are weighed against the economy/ecology balanced drivers. The selected topics come from transversal sources, and develop across economy and ecology conditions (Antonelli, 1995; Cowen, 2011; Forey, 2004; Kleinert, 2004; Michelini, 2008, 2010; Michelini & Coiffet, 2009; Mokyr, 2003; Morris, 2008; Pielke, 2010; Rajan, 2010; Ridley, 2010; Rogers, 2010; Steingart, 2008; Zakaria, 2008), to motivate the eventually sketched technology-steered solving hypothesis. The study organises in three sections: • The global outlook, economy-driven approaches, possibly aiming at the hypermarket setting; • The no-global outlook, ecology-driven approaches, mainly looking at caution headway paths; • The post-global outlook, approaches acknowledging the global/no-global inconsistencies, and in coherence suggesting the altruism path, with linked hyper-democracy vision; ◦ Each section providing only introductory comments on, otherwise, well assessed questions. ◦ The paper develops questioning looks on the future, imagining the conflicting issues, each based on mutually exclusive socio-political choices: • The global consent, permitting the hypermarket setting, with scale-economy effectiveness and the removal of local inefficiencies and position profits; • The no-global dissent, aiming at safeguarding the sectional achievements, along autarchy ruling, and the protection of the uncontaminated original (wild) surroundings; • The post-global approach, accepting the global village constraints, and devising altruism rules, so that the generations to come could inherit an artificially upgraded surroundings. The three choices differ on many aspects. The first leads to vanishing national authorities, with the power transferred to interstate agreements and multi-national companies, with possible build-up of biased fortunes of individuals and related personally ruled businesses. The second aims, on the contrary, at preserving the existing peculiarities, retrenching into thrifty neighbourhoods, risking, if successful, the aggressive envy of the surrounding peoples The last is, perhaps, utopia, looking after the worldwide natural capital sharing through the transparent resource allocation and bookkeeping, grounded on supply chains synergies and net concerns. THE ECONOMIC GROWTH OMEN The industrial revolution promoted the dramatic increasing of wealth, through the manufacture efficiency, transforming raw materials into useful goods. The affluent society requires widespread availability of cheap products, ceaselessly to be replaced with up-dated specimens, before disposal to landfills. The transformation effectiveness, highly supported by artificial energy, is winning trait, with the drawback of withdrawing resources from the earth stocks, eventually rejected as waste and pollution, at rates exceeding the natural recovery and remediation capabilities. The challenge to aim at unbroken growth comes out from the aptitude of discovering new natural resources and industrial processes, to diversify the manufacture flows once an option dries up, and to implement appropriate anti-pollution and reclaiming procedures, for the environment safeguard. The conformist global approach is accustomed to trust in technologies, with the reliance in these recent times never betrayed that the industrial revolution paradigms could always find out substitute stocks and processes, to feed durable development. 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