Herbert Brun's paper, "Technology and the Composer", presented at the U.N. Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization in 1970, reads as a manifesto for a new system of communication and societal evolution. Herbert Brun defines Technology as "being the science and art of applying knowledge to the desire for problem solving(Section II, paragraph 4)". He defines "composer" as a creator of all forms of the arts, and expounds upon this idea to imbue both the composer and technologist as the creators of new systems of thought, which he refers to often as a language throughout the paper.
Herbert Brun admonishes the current state of our society, claiming that "industrialists" and "politicians" control the means of our technical and cultural phylogeny, using a polluted system of thought and communication to reproduce itself.
In Section III, Brun basically goes on to propose that centers, run by composers and technologists in as many locations around the world as possible, be set up to invent a new system, or systems, that together with the aid of artificial intelligence, would augment humanity's ability to create an ideal society.
I am not surprised that with the ending of his presentation on an abstract thought experiment, without the accompaniment of some more concrete steps with which to create these centers of thought, that the UNESCO assembly basically declared the proposal as incomprehensible. Herbert Brun's statements about the broken down systems of thought that most of society perpetuates itself through is very tell-tale and the idea of harnessing technology to help us better organize and create a more truthful, real and practical (Section III, paragraph 18) society is an interesting idea.
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