Science and technology and national interests

All of the technologies developed in the modern world can be regarded as being developed with the goal of economic gain. Even the basic science of pure science is often unrelated to national interests. Nowadays, most basic science can also have money. Research funding is essential, and government support is needed to get it. Government officials are forced to allocate research funding for national benefits in order to use the taxes of precious people, which is often a visible economic benefit. Researchers who are familiar with it often start research from the beginning with the aim of economic gain. The same is true of the Internet. Because all capitalism is based on the benefits of individuals and corporations, the tragedy of commons is inevitable. Technology that helps producers to be fun and easy to make money is still developing, but it is difficult to evolve from the private to the public in a way that helps everyone. That is why the government needs to invest more in value-based technologies that can make everyone happy.

Internet and US Competitiveness

The United States saw the Internet as a tool for improving productivity. It was believed that it could strengthen US competitiveness. El Gore, vice president of the Clinton administration, has emphasized the importance of informatization since Senator Senator Arroyo said it can improve US competitiveness through information. In fact, this was a key priority for the Clinton administration at that time, and many government departments have published a number of documents that expect the Internet's advancement to boost the economic benefits of the United States. In order for the policy to gain power in one country, the support of the people should be supported. Alvin Toffler, who is familiar to us, is a person familiar with the importance of informatization and serving as a preacher to the American people. Alvin Toffler is a journalist and not a person with a lot of academic knowledge and accomplishments, but popular writing is more than anyone else. His books were sold horrendously in the bookstore, and his book became a guide to guide the direction that America should make. Chomsky, the intellectual of the United States, said that "the national interest is a value that precedes all interests and serves as a justification to combine public opinion with various oppositions and conflicts within a society." A typical example was IT. As many Americans chose IT as a breakthrough that would solve many internal problems in the United States, US IT began to gain political power.

Capitalism and Information Communication

The United States, after World War II, became a monarchical monopoly in the 1950s and 1960s with a strong aspiration to defend the country from foreign powers. However, in the process of solving the stagflation that has arisen due to the Middle East War that broke out in 1970, the development of information and communication becomes a solution to this. The development of information and communication goes beyond the level of seeking capitalism in crisis and is upgraded to a global paradigm. In the meantime, the argument that the crisis is not a problem of capitalism, but rather the result of neglecting the market, which is the core of capitalism, has become convincing. The claim that the monopoly capitalism is to be abolished and that the newly developed information communication should be used to tie the whole world into a single market has begun to be persuasive. Especially, it was expanded to the United States where information and communication developed.

A symbol of IT politics, El Gore

Alcor is a politician who symbolizes IT. Now he does not use it as an old term, but he popularized the term 'information highway', which was used as a synonym of '90s' informationization. He started his IT business by establishing current TV as an IPTV company. He is a member of the board of directors of Apple and a Senior Advisor to Google.

US digital neoliberalism

The United States was fortunate to be a victorious country without being attacked by the mainland in World War II. It was able to grow into a unique economic power beyond Europe. However, after the war broke out in the Middle East in 1973, six oil-producing countries in the Persian Gulf started to raise prices and cut production. The oil price shocked the world with an oil shock of over $ 4.80, which was 2.9 dollars per barrel. When the oil shock burst and the price rose explosively, it was forced to implement a 17% high interest rate policy to lower prices.

The problem was that the US manufacturing industry had begun collapsing when it could not afford the 17% interest rate. Few companies were able to make profits with a 17% interest expense. Naturally, 'made in USA' gradually disappears in the world market. Capitalism was almost collapsing because the economic crisis caused by the oil shock was a matter of suffering in most countries of the world as well as the United States. Britain has already applied for bailouts to the IMF.

To overcome this, the United States changed policy. It began to blatantly favor scientific technology that could directly contribute to economic growth. Alvin Toffler, who was once popular and popular, argued for the digital revolution, the telecommunications revolution, and the technological revolution, arguing that the world must move to a global, free market, and information age. The public listened to his words. In other words, the development of information and communication technology is strong in the 1970s, starting from a breakthrough to the US economic crisis.

The policy to overcome the economic crisis through information and communication was an attractive strategy for politicians who had to gain popularity in the 1980s by presenting a vision for economic development. Politicians representing Newt Gingrich have begun publicizing the notion that IT and its supporting policies can make a big difference to the United States. The American people also sympathized. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were the ones who took the opportunity in this social atmosphere. With the crisis of not knowing when the world was going to collapse, most companies had a different challenge from their existing paradigm when they were shrinking their investments and shunting their bodies.

US manufacturing collapse

The United States was fortunate to be a victorious country without being attacked by the mainland in World War II. This allowed the United States to grow into a unique economic powerhouse. As the oil shock broke out and prices rose so much, a 17% high interest rate policy was implemented to lower prices. The problem is that the manufacturing industry has begun to collapse when it can not afford the 17% interest rate. For companies, it was not possible to make profits with a 17% interest expense. Since then, made in USA will gradually disappear from the world market.

Technology and hegemony

The person who developed the technology started to make a beautiful world, but the state only looks at it as a means of maintaining the hegemony. The current international environment, which considers only the benefits of each country, increases uncertainty.

Uncertainty is great, but governments want to make further adjustments.

The United States wants to maintain the Internet leadership in the international community