8Techno-Nationalism and Techno-Globalization: A Perspective from the National Security Act

Hepi Suthar1*, Hitesh Rawat2, Gayathri M.3 and K. Chidambarathanu4

1Department of Computer Engineering, Vishwkarma University Pune, Maharashtra, India

2Faculty at Management Department, Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology and Management, Indore, India

3Department of Computing Technologies, School of Computing, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, India

4Department of Computer Science and Business Systems, R.M.K. Engineering College, Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract

Techno-nationalism and techno-globalism are descriptive and prescriptive categories for understanding the effect of technology on society and, by extension, society on technology. They represent ideologies rather than technological policies or realities, and reflect the underlying assumptions made by analysts about the role of technology in the world. Current techno-nationalism introduces new dangers into international trade, increasing volatility, unpredictability, and complexity for multinational corporations (MNEs). Indeed, the National Security Act of India [(NSAI or NSA), 1980] is significant in ways that techno-nationalism fails to recognize, and the international and global dimensions are critical in ways that techno-globalism fails to recognize. However, an examination of these words gives building pieces for a more refined appreciation of the connections between the state, technical innovation, and ...

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