THE CYBERNETIC REVOLUTION: THE MAIN CHARACTERISTICS, JUSTIFICATION, AND THE METHODOLOGY OF FORECASTINGġ. The focus is on the changes which will most probably occur due to the Cybernetic Revolution in the next 30–60 years for some aspects we have made forecasts up to the end of the 21 st century. The main part of the article is devoted to the analysis of the last production revolution – the Cybernetic Revolution – and the changes which took place in its course starting from the 1950s. The article presents a general outline of this theory and analyzes its predictive capacities. These new explanatory concepts are relevant for the analysis of causes and trends of major technological breakthroughs in the historical process and for the forecasting of new technological shifts. E 2015 the history of the main technological changes is presented in these works). Our article presents the analysis of contemporary technological shifts and forecasts the future technological transformations on the basis of the theory of production principles and production revolution which was introduced elsewhere ( e.g., Grinin 2006a, 2006b, 2007b, 2012b Grinin L. Keywords: production revolutions, Neolithic revolution, Agrarian Revolution, Industrial Revolution, cybernetics, Cybernetic Revolution, science-informational epoch, medicine, biotechnology, nanotechnology, robotics, cognitive technologies, self-regulating systems, epoch of self-regulating systems, miniaturization, individualization, information, control. The article gives a detailed analysis of the future breakthroughs in medicine, bio- and nanotechnologies as well as some other technologies in terms of the development of self-regulating systems with their growing ability to select optimum modes of functioning as well as of other characteristics of the Cybernetic Revolution (resources and energy saving, miniaturization, individualization, etc.). the technological paradigm based on medicine, bio- and nanotechnologies, robotics, IT and cognitive technologies). In future we will deal with the start of convergence of innovative technologies which will form the system of MBNRIC-technologies (i.e. The authors argue that at first the transition to the beginning of the final phase of the Cybernetic Revolution will start in the field of medicine (in its some innovative directions). It is shown that the development of various self-regulating systems will be the main trend of this revolution. The authors give some forecasts about its development in the nearest five decades and up to the end of the 21st century. On the basis of the analysis of the latest achievements in inno-vative technological directions and also on the basis of the opportunities pro-vided by the theory of production revolutions the authors present a detailed analysis of the latest production revolution which is denoted as ‘Сybernetic’. The article analyzes the technological shifts which took place in the second half of the 20th and early 21st centuries and forecasts the main shifts in the next half a century.
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