ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book presents past or realistic near-future instances of technological change. It focuses on demographic, educational, and technological interactions is that the instructional mechanisms most needed for fostering broad technological advances in less developed regions are effective on-the-job training opportunities for their labor force and expansive post-school learning opportunities for their populations at large. Interrelations linking technology and education to mortality trends appear to be analogously varied, pervasive, and significant. The book also focuses on educational linkages to fertility. It shows how the ways in which technological change possibilities are interlinked with ctemographic trends in mainly rural and agrarian societies may largely depend on local institutional arrangements. The thesis, if valid, has disturbing implications for the probable interplay of technological, developmental, and demographic forces in LDC rural areas.
