AbstractScience is fragmented. Single disciplines may be able to tackle single-factor problems, such as food shortages, raw materials shortfalls, pollution, energy, and population growth; but the confluence of these problems may be aggravated by single-factor solutions.Ervin Laszlo, Professor of Arts and Sciences at the State University of New York at Genesco, believes that, in a ‘global society’, scientists must accept greater responsibility for monitoring functions, providing normative world models, and for carrying out feasibility studies