Confronting Danger
Are What Terrorist Attacks Are and What Will Happen Related?: A Psychological Outline and Network of Ideas on the Human Factor
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Cristina Curtolo
Does the terrorist attack really have the quality of cowardice? From a holistic perspective terrorism articulates several deep and complex elements, whose powerful human factor in marking territories in relation to victims, and the rite of burning fear have exposed the problem of a huge amount of data from which, I believe, no ideas come out which are useful for avoiding passionate responses whose psychological effect is a form of beliefs covering the living substance of a phenomenon undergoing transformation. Theoretically, the aversion to combining a fact with its meaning is counterproductive because it implements the aggressive spirit (Curtolo 2012; 2016) that drives the rationality of "we-terrorist," while bearing in mind that the basis of the brain's psychic functioning requires recognition. This argument focuses on uncertainty and unpredictability linked to the motivational scale of the person who becomes a terrorist when responding to the call of narrative suggestions that connect the turmoil of political affirmation to the sacred.
Mitigating the Social Worries of Transformative Technologies: A Bibliometric Appraisal
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Marie Lavoie
To raise awareness of emerging technologies, a panel of experts from the World Economic Forum identifies every year the most salient technological trends. For the time being, these technologies – among those, additive manufacturing/3D printing, deep learning/artificial intelligence, and CRISPR/genes editing – are highly uncertain and can potentially have dangerous implications. Transformative technologies deal with a variety of challenges and thus face cultural, economic, regulatory, political, social, geographical and even linguistic barriers, and have the potential to disrupt the way we live, work, think, and produce. This should eventually alert social expertise to get involved. In this race, once the progress takes place, nobody might be able to hit the brakes, as emphasized by Harari (2015). Thus, important issues arise regarding safety and ethics. Scientists need to be advised ethically, socially, and legally to effectively manage social worries and maintain public trust. Scientists and specialists in SSHs have a responsibility to collaborate in order to prevent unintended consequences. This paper will delineate the network of experts and organizations in which these technologies developed and the magnitude of the evolving pattern of collaboration (disciplinary, institutional, national, and international) by using bibliometric analysis on the basis of Elsevier’s database.
