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54. CRISIS OF TECHNOGENIC CIVILIZATION, POSSIBLE WAYS TO OVERCOME IT
The absolutization of only the scientific and technical side of people's life, faith in its limitless possibilities gradually led to the understanding that this path of development leads to a dead end, deprives of prospects. This is the essence of the crisis of technogenic civilization.
Technology can serve not only for the good, but also for the evil of people.
Among the researchers of this situation there are pessimists who believe that humanity will not be able to find a way out of the crisis. Scientific and technological progress can no longer be stopped; it not only threatens human existence, but can also interrupt it (for example, nuclear war, which is still the main potential danger).
Others look at the future of human civilization with optimism. Mankind has been in danger of destruction more than once, but there has always been a way out of a seemingly hopeless situation.
This group of scientists sees a way out of the current crisis situation in the ability to manage and direct technical development:
1) through the awareness of the need to change priorities in the scale of cultural values, to create a new attitude to nature, to form an ecological culture;
2) through a change in the principles of measuring technology, its criteria, inclusion in the system of these assessments along with technical and technological optimality and economic efficiency, profitability and the sociocultural human dimension. To do this, it will be necessary to provide for a whole range of measures: learn to anticipate the social and cultural consequences of technical activity, set limits to technical invention. Much that is unpredictable in its consequences should remain in the realm of fantasy, mental gymnastics, and not the basis of activity;
3) through overcoming technocratic one-sidedness, including the parameters of the significance of human existence in the sphere of any activity.
These changes can become conditions for overcoming the crisis of technogenic civilization.
The second way is seen in improvement of man himself, the development of not only its general technical, but above all sociocultural potential.
It is impossible to stop progress. Technology plays a huge role in the modern existence of a person, in his work, organization of life, saving time, improving communications, universalizing life. Technological inevitability can also be mitigated by integrating technical and human knowledge.
The general cultural dimension should also become a measure of professionalism and competence.
Author: Barysheva A.D.
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