2011-№3(32) Article 5

A.V. Solovyev

Cultural representations of scientific-technical paradigm in the information epoch. р. 62-71

UDC 008

The article centers on a new scientific-technical paradigm formation in the information epoch, it analyzes cultural representations of the paradigm in the contemporary sociocultural space. The paper treats the transition from industrial paradigm to post-industrial one, which results in total informatization. The paper highlights the role of new technologies (info-technology, biotechnology, nanotechnology, ecotechnology) in the process of the new culture formation and development.

science, technics, new technologies, information epoch, culture, industrial society, post-industrial society, informatization, synergy, singularity, convergence, coevolution, unification.

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