Challenges to New Economic Theory: Climate Change, the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Technology, and Global Values

Abstract

This paper explores the inter-relationship of technological signs and human values as they impact the future of humanity. This exploration emphasizes the role of human capital and human perspective as we confront the challenges of tomorrow, including climate change, the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and the development of a new and viable economic order for global governance. It also notes the inter-connectedness of human subjectivity in terms of positive and negative sentiments as important components of the re-thinking of science, technology, and global governance.