ABSTRACT
The advocates of Appropriate Technology, Radical Disengagement, and Radical Self-Reliance argue against the development of advanced technology in the Third World. The development of advanced technology, in fact, can be a stimulant for developing indigenous Third World capacities in modern science. The advocates of Appropriate Technology, Radical Disengagement, and Radical Self-Reliance, all of whom profess that the Third World does not necessarily need advanced technology, ignore the fact that technology is the fundamental mechanism for structural transformations and modern economic growth. The ways of developing advanced technology in the Third World are inextricably related to the ways of developing a productive and creative science system. To initiate science and technology-based development programs, a Third World country needs a different strategy and a different model of progress and planning.
