Abstract

In this paper, part of a symposium on the popularization of science and technology, the author develops a number of themes: why should a specific topic be popularized; the topics currently be researched by UNESCO; the problems of man and his environment and man as the center of development; and the role of the communicator as interpreter. There are indications that the elimination of war as a legitimate means of settling a conflict and that the abolition of mass poverty and of disparities of economic development either already pertain to or will very soon pertain to the international imperatives for the survival of … society.