Open AccessUltraTechnologism: humanistic nonsense or postanthropic identity?
Author(s) -
Alexander A. Onosov
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
observatoriâ kulʹtury
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2588-0047
pISSN - 2072-3156
DOI - 10.25281/2072-3156-2014-0-2-38-43
Subject(s) - civilization , humanism , nonsense , identity (music) , dominance (genetics) , environmental ethics , sociology , epistemology , engineering ethics , aesthetics , geography , political science , philosophy , engineering , biology , law , archaeology , biochemistry , gene
Considers specific manifestations of the high technologies’ impact on the planetary dynamics of civilization. The author discusses prospects and risks of global human development produced by the dominance of technoculture, reviews the influence of information technologies on the type and general direction of cultural evolution of modern humans, and analyses transformations of their identity as that of the species.