NBIC-Convergence of Machinery and Basic Technologies as the Ecological Factor of Wellbeing

Ecology and safety in the technosphere: current problems and solutions

Zhironkin, S.A.^1 ; Kolotov, K.A.^2 ; Genin, A.E.^3 ; Agafonov, F.V.^4 ; Kovalevsky, S.A.^5

Yurga Technological Institute (Branch), National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Leningradskaya 26, Yurga

652055, Russia^1

National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Lenina av. 30, Tomsk

634034, Russia^2

Branch of JSC so EES Siberian ODU, Kuzbasskaya st., 29, Kemerovo

650000, Russia^3

Kemerovo State Agricultural Institute, Markovzeva st. 5, Kemerovo

650056, Russia^4

T.F. Gorbachev Kuzbass State Technical University, Vesennyaya st. 28, Kemerovo

650000, Russia^5

关键词: Development of science and technologies;    Ecological factors;    Environmental damage;    Environmental problems;    Positive changes;    Social well-being;    Technical progress;    Technological convergence;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/50/1/012011/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/50/1/012011

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The development of science and technology in the XXI century is on the way of the extensive use of natural resources. As a result, the scientific and technical progress does not initiate the reduction of environmental damage but encourages its cumulative growth. So the environmental problems have become a serious threat to social wellbeing of all mankind. The development of the core technologies doesn't allow creating the situation in which the new knowledge would generate positive changes in the environment. Therefore, among the issues that define the future of advanced environmental technologies, and potentially significant for the understanding of the humanities, there is the phenomenon of technological convergence and, in particular, the predicted convergence of the nano-, bio-, information and cognitive technologies (NBIC). The consequence of NBIC-convergence may be the transformation of the humanity into a single global mind, which can be linked into a solid set of technologies, establishing united standards for social wellbeing and environmental technologies.