Electronic Civilization as a Global Perspective

The article examines the contemporary world in connection with the development of the technologies for creation of artificial man and disappearance of biological man. It substantiated that the discussion on such a fateful issue is preferable to conduct only with the participation of reputable experts and with the involvement of public figures, the media and as openly as possible, that implies a wide public resonance with a focus on exceptional significance of the nature of the problem. That author states that for an adequate response to these challenges, which will more persistently assert themselves as the humanity enters the world of electronic civilization, there is a need for new scientific and humanitarian paradigms, new ethics, new philosophy, which are called collectively reveal a disproportionately more complex nature of the new cultural and civilizational continuum and are capable to analyze its multiple and contradictory processes.

Электронная цивилизация, электронная культура, когнитивные технологии, NBICS-конвергенция, искусственный человек, искусственный интеллект, нанороботы, «умные вещи», нейрофилософия, гуманитарная парадигма, технологическая сингулярность, термодинамика, глобализация и национальные интересы, рубеж невозврата, бифуркация, философское осмысление, национальное, суверенное государство, киберпреступность, виртуальный мир, дополненная реальность, антропологическая катастрофа, моделирование будущего человека и человечества, electronic civilization, electronic culture, cognitive technologies, NBICS-convergence, artificial man, artificial intelligence, nanorobots, “smart things”, neurophilosophy, humanitarian paradigm, technological singularity, thermodynamics, globalization and national interests, line of no return, bifurcation, philosophical comprehension, sovereign nation-state, cybercrime, virtual reality, augmented reality, anthropological catastrophe, global perspective, modeling the future of man and mankind