From Homo Economicus – to Homo Sapiens

2021 ◽  
pp. 18-31
Author(s):  
Sergey D. Bodrunov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Homo Economicus ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Global Problems ◽  
Material Goods ◽  
Growth Of Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Intensive

The challenges and global problems facing humanity urgently need to be ad­dressed. Will new technologies become a means of exacerbating these problems and will they have a destructive impact on the nature of man himself? There is such a risk. However, new technological advances simultaneously open up op­portunities for solving these problems. The transition to a new industrial society of second-generation based on the growth of knowledge-intensive production makes it possible to expand the satisfaction of human needs while reducing the burden on the natural environment. But for this to happen, there must be a shift in people’s motivation, a shift away from the pursuit of material goods driven by economic rationality and the satisfaction of false needs inflated by the market, and a transition to a non – economic mode of production – noonomy. This shift is possible, of course, not on the basis of “persuasion” or compulsion to asceti­cism, but on the basis of objective changes in the conditions of human existence: his exit from direct material production, his transition to creative activity, the ex­pansion (on the material basis of the production system of the next generation) of opportunities to meet his reasonable needs. People themselves will set limits to their needs, focusing them not on the absorption of the greatest possible amount of goods, but on the conditions of their self-realization. It is on this path that it is possible to solve the urgent problems of development – both of civiliza­tion and of human personality – and to mitigate social conflicts on the basis of objectively increasing socialization of society and on the ideological platform of solidarity, and, in the future, to eliminate their causes.

scholarly journals Noonomy as a Strategical Project

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
pp. 136-150
Author(s):  
Sergey Bodrunov
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Specific Weight ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Social Production ◽  
New Production ◽  
Automated Production ◽  
Production Technologies ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
Strategic Project ◽  
Technological Opportunities

New production technologies create more opportunities to meet people’s needs. However, they inevitably increase the antropogenic load on the environment. Therefore, the social conditions of industrial production have to be changed in such a way as to use the new technologies to solve the emerging problems without aggravating them. One option is to increase the knowledge intensity of production, which means that specific weight of knowledge should be embodied in the production and dominate the material costs. Another option is to replace human functions by automated production means. However, the current social production conditions concentrate new technological opportunities on the production and sales growth, which further increases consumption and the volume of absorbed natural resources. Consumption also grows due to the false needs imposed on consumers. Knowledge-intensive production creates prerequisites for the transition to the second generation industrial society, but this transition alone cannot solve the numerous global problems. The only solution is to replace the current economic criteria of production and consumption with those based on reason and culture, i.e. noonomy, which is a non-economic way of satisfying people’s needs. The roadmap towards noonomy should be a consciously managed strategic project based of the concept of strategizing developed by Professor V.L. Kvint.

scholarly journals A Need for Co-Evolution between Technological Innovations and Social Innovations

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Pae Kun Choi
Keyword(s):  
Distribution System ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Homo Economicus ◽  
Industrial Ecosystem ◽  
Social Innovations ◽  
Basic Characteristics

The 4th industrial revolution must be approached from the perspective of industrial ecosystem in order to lead to industrial reorganization facing after deindustrialization. This is because, as the characteristics of agriculture and manufacturing differ, the basic characteristics of industries related to the 4th industrial revolution differ from those of manufacturing. Differences in the way agriculture and manufacturing value is created require differences in human type, social systems, and even distribution system. That is, just as ecosystems focus on the interrelationship of organisms and their relationship with the physical environment, the industrial ecosystems to be accompanied by the 4th industrial revolution require new human beings to live in the new industrial ecosystem and new systems to support the new industrial ecosystem, with new technologies in the related fields. This paper will show that the industrial ecosystem required by the 4th industrial revolution calls for Homo empathicus different from Homo economicus of industrial society, a reciprocal economy different from the capitalist economy, and an autonomous democracy different from free democracy.

Rediseñando las Organizaciones del Futuro. El impacto de la transformación digital en el mundo del trabajo

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 199-226
Author(s):  
Ricardo M. Piñeyro Prins ◽  
Guadalupe E. Estrada Narvaez
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
The People ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Current Scenario ◽  
The Way

We are witnessing how new technologies are radically changing the design of organizations, the way in which they produce and manage both their objectives and their strategies, and -above all- how digital transformation impacts the people who are part of it. Even today in our country, many organizations think that digitalizing is having a presence on social networks, a web page or venturing into cases of success in corporate social intranet. Others begin to invest a large part of their budget in training their teams and adapting them to the digital age. But given this current scenario, do we know exactly what the digital transformation of organizations means? It is necessary? Implying? Is there a roadmap to follow that leads to the success of this process? How are organizations that have been born 100% digital from their business conception to the way of producing services through the use of platforms? What role does the organizational culture play in this scenario? The challenge of the digital transformation of businesses and organizations, which is part of the paradigm of the industrial revolution 4.0, is happening here and now in all types of organizations, whether are they private, public or third sector. The challenge to take into account in this process is to identify the digital competences that each worker must face in order to accompany these changes and not be left out of it. In this sense, the present work seeks to analyze the main characteristics of the current technological advances that make up the digital transformation of organizations and how they must be accompanied by a digital culture and skills that allow their successful development. In order to approach this project, we will carry out an exploratory research, collecting data from the sector of new actors in the world of work such as employment platforms in its various areas (gastronomy, delivery, transportation, recreation, domestic service, etc) and an analysis of the main technological changes that impact on the digital transformation of organizations in Argentina.

The Daily Routine of Students in the Classroom

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 157-163
Author(s):  
Lilian Marques Silva
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Public School ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
The State ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Technological Advances

The almost instantaneous access to information provided by technological advances has revolutionized the behavior of people and of the classrooms too. Teachers had to adapt themselves to new technologies to maintain students interested and attentive to the discipline being taught. In this work, the behavior of the students of the 6th grade of elementary school II during class was observed. The school chosen is a public school in the State of São Paulo (Brazil). The research was based on data collection. The students were observed by being filmed during six months. The results showed that the students were interested in the classes and committed to the activities. The place that the student chooses to sit in the classroom influences the behavior of the teacher, because the more distant the teacher, the less he participates in the class.

The Industrial Safety Professionals: A Comparative Analysis from World War I until the 1980S

1992 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 705-727 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Dwyer
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
The United States ◽  
Industrial Safety ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Industrial Medicine

The birth of industrial society produced demand for the services of professionals specialized in matters related to industrial safety. Three professions—safety engineering, industrial medicine, and ergonomics—are examined. These professions are observed to either submit to single sets of demands, to integrate contradictory demands, or to experience scission. Until the late 1960s their growth appears to have been relatively peaceful and uncontroversial. From this period onward, controversy breaks out over questions related to industrial safety, and professions and government administrations grow. Increasingly, the traditional approach of safety professionals is called into question, and they adopt new orientations. These changes are mapped through the examination of data drawn principally from the United States, France, Great Britain, and to a lesser extent Brazil. The traditional standards approach competes with cost-benefit analysis and with systemic safety for influence; in addition, an emergent approach that analyzes accident causes in terms of social relations of work is detected. From Bhopal to Chernobyl, new technologies subject civilian populations to risks of catastrophic accidents, and the action of safety professionals comes under the spotlight. The analysis constructed permits new understandings of the past and the future of these professions.

About Noonomics as the Basis of Global Transformation (Review of the Book by S. D. Bodrunov “Noonomics: The Trajectory of Global Transformation”)

2021 ◽  
pp. 123-129
Author(s):  
Elena S. Zotova
Keyword(s):  
Economic Activity ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Human Community ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
The Future ◽  
Main Ideas ◽  
Critical Reviews

The article provides a review of a book by S. D. Bodrunov “Noonomics: the Trajectory of Global Transformation”, which is constructed in the form of a summary of the main ideas developed in the theory of noonomics – ​a noneconomic method of economic activity focused on meeting specific human needs based on the criteria of reasonableness determined by the development of knowledge and culture. The article presents the position of the author of the book, who singled out eight steps towards the development of the human community to noonomics through the new industrial society of the second generation (NIS.2). It is shown that the theory of noonomics developed by the author of the book offers a scientific basis for resolving the contradictions of modern human civilization. It is emphasized that technological transformations are determinable to shape the future of human civilization. Critical reviews of the proposed concept are considered.

Evolution of Biotechnology and Information Technology and Its Impact on Human Security

2015 ◽  
pp. 154-161
Author(s):  
E. S. Zinovieva ◽  
Y. I. Vojtenko
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Human Security ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Security Threats ◽  
Present Stage ◽  
Society Business ◽  
Stage Of Development

Abstract: The development of post-industrial society initiates profound economic, technological and cultural change in the way of life of all mankind. The revolutionary breakthroughs in the field of new technologies such as biotechnology and information technology are reflected in all spheres of human activity, directly affecting the human security. The article analyzes the consequences of widespread usage biotechnology and information technology in the foreign policy practice on the basis of the human security theory. The detailed description of the main directions of the use of biometric technology in the foreign policy and consular practices is provided, the challenges and threats to information security associated with biometrics are analyzed, arising from widespread biotechnology are the main challenges and threats to as well as human security threats arising at the present stage of development and application of these technologies. Human security threats associated with the use of biotechnology are placed in the broader context of global trends in scientific and technological development. The recommendations are formulated in the field of foreign policy and international cooperation, which would neutralize new threats to international and personal safety arising at the present stage of development of biotechnology. The authors conclude that in order to ensure ethical regulation of new technologies that address issues of human security, it is necessary to organize multi-stakeholder partnerships at national and international level with the participation of states, representatives of civil society, business and the research community.

scholarly journals Influence of Technology on Socio-spatial City Development

Prostor ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (1 (61)) ◽  
pp. 118-129
Author(s):  
Ljiljana Vujadinović ◽  
Svetlana K. Perović
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Spatial Dimension ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Spiritual Values ◽  
City Development ◽  
Material Goods ◽  
And Function ◽  
The City

This paper is studying influence of new technologies on city development with accent on socio-spatial dimension. The primary goal of the paper is to point out the reflections of earlier ideas in the context of modern technological processes in cities. All social, technical and technological components of a community, and finally civilization, are reflected within space of the city. Although having remained the greatest consumer of many material goods, city has also become a ‘’producer’’ of many technical-technological and spiritual values of civilization. Taking into account acceleration of phenomena in the world of technology and technology featuring modernity, it reasonably brings a question on realistic chance for prediction of their further course and related social changes that are about to cause it. In many scenarios of urban future, one can sense the idea of a city as a result of high technological achievements of civilization. Special attention is paid on informational city which, connecting a lot of people into systems of interactive information technology change the way of their mutual communication, as well as their social life and culture of behaviour. Measure of organization and function of city is set by telecommunication technologies, information, and computers. If city is a ‘’print of a society in space’’, then a contemporary moment refers to ‘’digitalization’’ of human beings, digitalization of their interactions, new aesthetics, value and other criteria. The tendency of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of new technologies on 21st century cities interpreted primarily through the prism of certain theoretical and experimental ideas and concepts of the 20th century.

scholarly journals HOW TO MAKE NATURAL SCIENCES BECOME THE SCIENCES OF PRIORITY

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-6
Author(s):  
Eleonora Melnik
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
School Education ◽  
Video Information ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Natural Science Education ◽  
School Period

In many countries the interest to natural sciences among youth declines at the same time the interest to human sciences and management of human activity increases. Educational environment reflects those transformative mechanisms which influence the real sphere of human activity. Education being a socially significant institution should respond to human needs “here and now”, keep and develop fundamental knowledge using innovative means of education. Knowledge of some areas of physics, chemistry and biology remain conservative. New industries require professionals who can integrate different knowledge. This knowledge is acquired in the process of school education and the best time is primary school period. Forms of extracurricular work: traditional clubs, inter-class associations, interest cen-ters and so on. Teachers give less preference to research of natural objects and phenomena and more preference to use of video information. This includes different presentations devel-opment of which is encouraged and widely used in primary school. New technologies should be implemented in school education but we shouldn’t substitute live communication with na-ture by texts and pictures from the Internet. Observation of nature being a method of classi-cal biology is still of great value because it allows a child to identify and explore the environ-ment and become a discoverer of the world. Key words: educational environment, interest in science, new technologies, natural science education.

scholarly journals La socialización política en la sociedad del conocimiento / Socialization Policy in the Knowledge Society

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Campo Sánchez ◽  
José Manuel Mansilla Morales
Keyword(s):  
Political Socialization ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Social Patterns ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Sociedad Del Conocimiento ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Nuevas Tecnologías ◽  
Political Units

ABSTRACTIn recent times, mankind has been able to optimize the scientific and technological advances exceptionally, trans-forming history as no other event had done since Neolithic times and ensuring the emergence of a new society "information-al", "technology" or "knowledge ". Technology has played a prominent role in these changesdynamic phenomena such as digital  globalization  has  changed  paradigms,  social  patterns  and  habits  of  millions  of  individual ́s  roles.  The  traditional mechanisms of political socialization are implemented by the emergence of new technologies in the population. In this con-text  we  propose  how  they  perform  the  processes  of  political  socialization  of  citizens  today.  The  plurality  of  languages  and sensibilities,  the  crisis  of  the  usual  paradigms,  and  the  integration  into  broader,  political  units  requires  us  to  explore  new spaces and forms of education / political socialization. In this paper we aim, firstly, to ask what's new in technological so-cialization and in the second stage, what implications this has on the construction of a new mode of political education.RESUMENEn los últimos tiempos la humanidad ha sabido optimizar los avances científicos y tecnológicos de manera excepcional, transformando la historia como ningún otro acontecimiento lo había hecho desde el Neolítico y procurando el advenimiento de una nueva sociedad “informacional”, “tecnológica” o del “conocimiento”. Las tecnológicas han jugado un papel destacado en estos cambios al dinamizar fenómenos tales como la globalización digital que han modificado paradigmas, patrones sociales y hábitos de millones de individuos. Los tradicionales mecanismos de socialización política se ven implementados por la irrupción de las nuevas tecnologías en la población. En este contexto planteamos cómo se realizan en la actualidad los procesos de socialización política de los ciudadanos. La pluralidad de lenguajes y de sensibilidades, la crisis de los paradigmas habituales, la integración en unidades políticas más amplias, nos obliga a analizar nuevos espacios y formas de educación / socialización política. En este artículo, en un primer momento, qué hay de novedoso en la socialización tecnológica y, en un segundo momento, qué implicaciones tiene en la construcción de un nuevo modo de educación política.

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