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anned vehicles which can deliver death and destruction to more people at no cost in lives to ourselves we are now working on weapons for war in outer space and later there would be weapons installed on the moon and the stars to be launched against targets on earth and if there is a war between the planets and the stars we would be able to kill and destroy everything there too 9 science has no more moral values we are going to play god and create new life forms clones etc which we will again develop for use in our wars in killing and destroying each other already the cinemas and television are showing stories of future wars where robots would kill people and destroy cities this may be fiction today but we know many of the fictions in the past have already become reality no doubt the star wars will become realities in the future the movies television shows and books will work on the minds of our children who will grow up to think of wars killing and destruction if they become scientists they would work on newer and more destructive weapons 10 science is the greatest discovery in the field of knowledge it was initially referred to as a branch of philosophy but the methodical study of life and matter free from superstitions has enabled men to make better use of all natural material and phenomena on earth and this new field of knowledge became known as science since then superstitions have been eliminated in every field of human knowledge and the human race has made tremendous progress in understanding the true nature of the environment he lives in 11 the early scientist believed that this new area of knowledge would enable us to improve the quality of our life initially the main objective was to turn base metal into gold but soon scientific research spread into other areas which might help improve the capacity and quality of life 12 today we know that we have only to determine what we want to produce and if we provide sufficient money and scientific manpower for research and development we would be able to achieve our objective brilliant inventors like edison or bell are not always necessary today because with enough funds and scientific manpower we can methodically analyse and synthesise things even at the level of atoms so that eventually we will come up with the answer or the products 13 in medicine for example we can methodically examine compounds which we break up or synthesize and we are likely to come up with some useful drugs but why have we not found the cure for cancer or hiv aids etc this is because these are not our priority our priority is to kill people our money and our scientist have been programmed to focus on research and development of weapons but if we decide that our priority is to cure diseases or to produce something to make life healthier for people or to control the weather than if the money presently allocated to research on weapons of greater mass destruction are re allocated and the research scientist redirected to these new priorities and instructed to focus their research on these items there can be no doubt that we would shorten the time taken to discover develop test and produce these cures at a price that even the poor can afford but we are not because curing people is not our priority killing people is 14 there are in fact many other problems which require the attention and the research skills as well as the money of the rich countries we need for example to be able to control the destructiveness of natural phenomena like earthquakes storms floods droughts etc we may not be able to establish complete control but we can mitigate the effect 15 we know the eruptions of volcanoes occur because of the build up of pressures within perhaps it would be possible to provide vents which would allow the pressure to be reduced continuously over time to direct the flow of lava even to utilize the heat for power generation etc the technology would not be far different from drilling for oil or producing thermal energy 16 we need to reduce the burning of fossil fuels one of the ways is by the development of hybrid vehicles pure electric vehicle would still need electricity to be produced somewhere probably by burning fossil fuel one day the world s reserve of petroleum will be exhausted even before that alternative ways of power generations with wind and wave the differences in the temperature of water in the deep sea and flowing water need to be researched and developed 17 today s concerns is over power and fossil fuel but water will be a problem in the near future we have developed ways to desalinate sea water and suddenly the waterless desert areas have developed into great cities it is a fact that some countries have more water than they need while others have hardly any water we know that snow is the best form of water storage what is more snow melts into water continuously we transport oil and gas for thousands of miles through pipes why are we not transporting water over thousands of miles from land with abundant melting snow to the arid areas of the world not only will we be able to provide drinking water but enormous areas of arid land would become green as food crops are grown 18 we may not be able to control weather but we may be able to reduce the damage caused by storms of floods etc 19 truly there a lots of things that can benefit from science for the betterment of human life 20 the population of the world is now more than 6 billion the world is really becoming overcrowded if we succeed in prolonging life through better health and a less disaster prone environment the population of the world would not only increase but there would be many old people science should be directed at delaying the onset of senility and extending the productive life at the same time those suffering from senility should be helped to become less dependent on others with this we can put up with an overcrowded world still by the year 2100 we may have as many as 10 billion people in the world we need to think about how to deal with this situation do we really want a lot of people age between 150 to 200 years 21 the chinese tried to limit their population growth by decreeing that each family can have only one child unfortunately the chinese prefer male children with the ability that science has given us to detect the gender of the embryo very early the females are being aborted today there are millions more males than females in china 22 if this is carried to the extreme the chinese race would be wiped out as there would be no women to bear children perhaps we should clone chinese females but here a great moral issue will trouble the human race 23 this idea of one child one family is not quite the right solution to population growth control science must find a better way to prevent over populating planet earth 24 then there is the problem of drugs crime rates have risen everywhere because of drugs and human productivity has gone down science must find a way of preventing or ending addiction of modifying the opium poppy of making the human body reject these drugs 25 clearly there are a huge number of things that science can focus on and resolve for the good of humankind but most scientific research most of the money allocated for research and development most of the scientific manpower are directed at inventing weapons of war and how to kill more and more people more efficiently there are also other scientific researches which are really criminal and unethical 26 what we need now is a return to sanity to resurrect moral values if this world and humanity are not to be destroyed by science than we need to agree on an international scientific code of ethics or morality 27 this is not easy because we do not want to stifle scientific research nevertheless we need to do this we need to have an international body to oversee and licence certain scientific research it should have jurisdiction over every country we cannot afford to have one sided agencies like the international atomic energy commission which ignores the r d in nuclear weapons by the nuclear powers but obstruct even the peaceful use of nuclear energy for poor countries 28 asia is older in terms of civilizational development it is usually conservative and much more given to preserving traditional values then the west 29 in the effort to formulate and apply better moral values to science and scientific research and development asia must play a bigger role and insist on the world respecting the moral codes 30 the failure of the united nations is due to the most powerful nation in the world ignoring the authority of the united nations without the backing of powerful nations all international institutions will fail today with the emergence of only one world super power it would be impossible to draw up a code of ethics for everyone because the super power refuses to abide by the code 31 multilateralism has failed we need to go back to the old game of balance of power there must be three world powers not necessarily of the same strength each of these three must enter into a solemn agreement to curb any one of them from disregarding internationally agreed norms at any one time there would be two world powers to confront any one power which ignores the international law 32 it is not the perfect solutions to the failure of democratic multilateralism but the world would be totally destroyed if there is a war between these three great powers that should be sufficient to deter the use of violence when a great power abuses international agreements 33 one of the great powers must be in asia it is not necessary that it should be just one country it could be a coalition or alliance 34 asia is an important player because the peoples of asia have largely retained their moral values perhaps asians are too conservative but we need to tamper progress with tradition 35 in human society change is inevitable but change is not always good certainly in the application of science to war the change is for the worse not for the better 36 the world is too eurocentric the europeans believes that all conflicts can be and must be resolved through contests where the winner takes all 37 it is time that we discard contest in the solution of our conflicts it is time that the solution to conflict is not through the determination of who is the winner it is time that the solution is in favour of both in a win win result rather than contest there should be compulsory negotiation arbitration or judgement by third parties 38 in the effort to regulate science and its applications asians must push for a no war no loss solution asia has the capacity in science which is equal to that of the west asia therefore has clout we should use this clout to create a better world the code governing scientific research and development agreed upon by the three great powers will achieve this 39 unless we realise this the future of asia science and technology is bleak posted by awang at 10 32 pm sunday july 29 2007 special lecture kyushu asia institute of leadership kail global arena fukuoka my expectation towards japanese business persons what you can do for asia thank you for this opportunity to speak on a very important subject which will be relevant to the role you will play in the future as japanese businessmen in asia 2 business is about making money but we are now more conscious about corporate responsibility to the public this is because we realise that without the public no business can be successful we would not have a market we would not make profits 3 i think you will agree with me the richer the market the more you can sell and the more profits you will make poor countries with poor people make poor markets and little profits for business people 4 in malaysia we coined a slogan prosper thy neighbour it is the opposite of the common english saying beggar thy neighbour which means that you become prosperous by making your neighbours poor by taking their wealth to enrich yourself 5 we think this way to wealth is bad it would cause bad feelings conflicts and even wars we would rather see our neighbours rich so that we will have no confrontation by them and their domestic problems will not spill over into our country instead our neighbours will provide us with a good market for our products 6 actually it was the japanese business people who influenced our philosophy very early after independence japanese corporations invested in our country they set up plants to manufacture industrial products more cheaply by taking advantage of our low cost labour and our disciplined workers 7 japanese investments created jobs and stimulated our local businesses and industries very soon malaysia became more prosperous japanese manufactures were then able to export their products to malaysia which had become a good market 8 clearly by prospering us through your investments you have created a rich market for your companies to sell your products and make a second profit 9 we noticed this and we thought that since malaysia is a producer of a lot of products if our neighbours are helped by us to become rich than we will be able to sell our products to them thus increasing our exports and foreign exchange earnings and prospering our people 10 but the benefits did not stop there when neighbours are poor their domestic problems tend to spill over into our country for example their unemployed workers would enter our country illegally if they cannot find work they may resort to crime 11 malaysia was not a capital exporting country we were not able to set up industries in neighbouring countries so as to create jobs for their people and prosper them what we did was to provide free training for them in the skills which will help them to develop their country we trained them in administration in development planning in budgeting and in certain technologies which we possessed when we could we also invested we had expertise in estate management and we developed their agricultural sector 12 gradually they became more prosperous and provided us and other countries with a good market there is also less spill over of their domestic problems into our country 13 as you can see prosper thy neighbour is not charity is not altruistic it is really enlightened self interest by helping others we are actually helping ourselves 14 i do not know whether you realise that by investing in malaysia and prospering it you are prospering yourselves but if you study your malaysian experience i am sure you will agree that this was what happened it follows that anything you do for your neighbours which can enrich them will enrich yourselves more 15 so what can you do for asia you can help asia develop and prosper your can do this by investing you can also do this by upgrading the skills of other asians through education and training you can transfer your labour intensive industries to the low cost countries you can implant your work ethics among the workers of these c...