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Baksansky, O. E..
Convergence of Knowledge, Technology and Society: Beyond the Borders of Convergent Technologies
// Philosophy and Culture. – 2014. – ¹ 7.
– P. 1061-1068.
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Abstract: CKTS (convergence of knowledge, technology and society) is expressed at all levels of knowledge, technology
and social life and, as a rule, is a result of diversified reasons. Convergence is in the front row of scientific discoveries
and technological development and promises to become the fundamental and integrating sphere of knowledge and
transformations as it already happened in case of information technologies and nanotechnologies. Social convergence
has a great potential to significantly and efficiently improve human abilities and his economic competitive ability and
life safety. There is a certain need to assume this opportunity and undertake particular measures to make convergence
a more efficient solution of the problems that are faced by the humankind today. We can even say that the phenomenon
of NBICS-convergence is a completely new stage of the technological progress. Convergence is viewed as a developing
interaction between scientific disciplines, technologies, communities and human activities for the purpose of
achieving their compatibility and integration. Convergence is important for the information society and by analyzing
social consequences of convergence we can actually solve problems that cannot be solved by usual science divided
into disciplines and branches as well as to create new technologies and knowledge. The process of convergence has been improving over the last few decades. At the first stage the development of nanotechnologies triggered integration
of scientific and technological disciplines that used to be independent from one another such as biology, chemistry,
condensed matter physics, materials technology, electric engineering, medicine and others). NBIC-convergence
was the second stage when new technologies were integrated based on their mutual fundamental concepts such
as the theories of atoms, genes (DNA), bites and neurons. CKTS is an another stage of convergence which expands
based on the mutual relations and borders of technologies and bring us to the general humanitarian, planetary and
social grounds. At this stage associated human, technical, social and natural resources and capacities are combined
in order to answer the questions that otherwise cannot be answered by usual sciences and to create and distribute
new knowledge, technologies, industries, products and solution for improving the well-being of people. Attraction of
humanitarian technologies also gives us a right to talk about creation of a new convergent NBICS-technology were S
means socio-humanitarian technologies.
Keywords: CKTS, NBIC, NBICS, convergent technologies, cognitive science, education, world view, social technologies, resources of knowledge, intellectual unification.
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