At first blush these look like futures that simply failed. But the story is more complex.The Rockefeller Foundation s vision of a Science of Man led it to foster a new molecularbiology at CalTech and other institutions. Today s control of crops through their genes andchildren through their pharmaceuticals can both be traced back, in part, to thatintervention. And then there is the remarkable story of Song Jian. A Chinese engineer whohad been schooled in control theory in Moscow just after Stalin s death , he rose to pre-eminence in China s military-industrial complex. Attending a meeting on control theory inHelsinki in the 1970s, he became convinced of the power of crude computer models likethose of the Club of Rome s Limits to Growth. Importing such modelling to his power baseat the Chinese missile and space-flight ministry he became crucial in the enactment ofthe one-child policy in the 1980s.
乍看下,这些内容毫无希望可言,但其实并非如此。洛克菲勒基金会对于人类科学的愿景促使其在加州理工学院和其他院校发展了分子生物学这个新学科。如今,通过基因可以对农作物进行控制,并且通过药物能对儿童进行控制,在某种程度上都能对事物进行一定的干预。接下来看一看宋健的非凡故事。他是一名中国工程师,就在斯大林病逝后不久,他前往莫斯科学习控制理论,随后在中国的共军联合体中成为一名出类拔萃的人物。1970年代,宋健在赫尔辛基参加了一场有关控制理论的会议,他开始认识到原始计算机模型的力量,正如罗马俱乐部发表的《增长的极限》依据的计算机模型一样,随后他便将这类模型引入他在中国导弹与航天部门的动能基地加以研究。他也是1980年代独生子女政策的主要制定者。
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