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Zhouying Jin
THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY:
Book Abstract
By Zhouying Jin
THE Future of Humanity - From Global Civilization to Great Civilization (Second Edition, 2022), by Zhouying Jin, explores: What kind of civilization should human beings pursue? As Theodore Jay Gordon said in his preface, “This question has preoccupied scholars, philosophers, and politicians for centuries”.
The book mainly discusses the following aspects:
1. We are standing at a crossroads in the history of human evolution. Observing the world dispassionately and looking forward calmly towards the future, humans find themselves confronting unprecedented challenges. Take the unfolding technological revolution as an example. While it brings us unlimited opportunities, we are deeply worried about the future development direction, including the direction of human evolution and the scientific and technological crisis.
2. The crisis in Human Civilization driven by the theory of scientific and technological omnipotence. Taking the risk of Human–machine civilization as an example, humans needs to guard against five “wars” among three categories of species in the so-called “man-machine civilization” era; We must respect for life, reverence toward nature.
3. Rethink technology. Soft technology - another paradigm of technology. Soft technology and soft environment are the fields that author has pioneered and are the fields of human endeavor outside of the world of things. Some issues are also discussed such as “what determines the direction of technological innovation”, “human beings must regulate technology, but it is not enough to rely on regulation and control”. 4 . The transformation of civilization is imminent. After Industrial Civilization, human beings should pursue a Global Civilization (the primary stage of the advanced human civilization form) composed of new material, spiritual, political, ecological, and interstellar civilizations, and must then strive to realize a higher level of human society’s survival and development mode - the Great Civilization that is heading for national extinction and world harmony (the higher stage of the advanced human civilization form).
5. Humans will eventually create a Great Civilization. History has entered a new period of integration and development of Eastern and Western civilizations. The power of education and persuasion, human beings can and should agree on common values, Ideal human societies have certain characteristics in common etc. are all positive energy for realizing Great Civilization. In fact, for thousands of years, human beings have never stopped striving to create an ideal society.
6. Integrating the values of Global Civilization into the
practice of sustainable development — The case of
China. Redefining sustainable development — a paradigm shift for human survival and development. To realizing sustainable development must adopt a systematic solution: implement six major mode transformation.
Finally, author calls for a truly awakening of human beings. Our generation must have the courage to shoulder responsibilities and transmitting the goal of realizing the Great Civilization to the next generation.
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