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ABCC SCOPE: GLOBAL / LOCAL.
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SCOPE is probably the most important cognitive dichotomy for our 
generation. Mankind became surprisingly efficient in the local mode, 
but stays at the cavern level in the global. Actually, local successes 
tend to turn themselves against the global situation and sometimes 
become global catastrophies.

Let us mention the demographic explosion, the polution and destruction
of the environment, the contrast between the first and the third world.
They are all GLOBAL antithesis of the thesis "LOCAL technological
efficiency". 

These global problems cannot be adequately investigated, let alone 
solved, unless:

1.Their dialectic nature is recognised and understood,

2.Adequate DP tools are developped to support the investigations.
  These tools have to function in the dialectic modus. 

DP tools are of course not theoretically essential. However, on the 
one hand the very nature of global problems involves very large amounts 
of data while, on the other hand, the dialectic approach to their
solution involves recursive, or iterative procedures which usually 
represent heavy load in computation. In practice, global problems can be
processed only with help of adequate DP tools. 

We intend to discus problems involved by the design of such tools in
a future study.