ABSTRACT
The "forgotten world" is made up of the developing nations where most of the people, comprising 50% of the world's population, live in poverty with hunger a frequent companion and fear of famine a constant menace. The poverty in many of the developing nations will become unbearable; standards of living in many of the affluent nations may stagnate, or even retrogress. The "right to dissent" doesn't mean much to a person with an empty stomach, a shirtless back, a roofless dwelling, the frustrations and fear of unemployment and poverty, the lack of education and opportunity, and the pain, misery, and loneliness of sickness without medical care. The chapter discusses the consequences of oversophisticated approaches reflected in the research and education programs in many developing countries. Sometimes the irrelevant research being done and the expensive gadgets and equipment that one sees standing unused are the result of ideas brought back by students who had taken advanced degrees in foreign universities.
