Scientific and Technical Intelligence and Its Responsibility for the Future of World Civilization

Abstract

It is shown that against the background of the development of science and technologies, there is a noticeable spiritual, cultural, moral and ethical degradation of human society. At the same time, the purpose of the article is to attempt to answer one of the main questions of the present – why the development of science, technology and technology leads to spiritual degradation in society, to the aggravation of relationships in the system "man-society-nature-technosphere". According to the authors, one of the reasons for this situation is that for representatives of the scientific and technical intelligentsia, the scale of values is quite often limited by "perfect design" in technical terms, that is high functionality and reliability at low production costs. Together with a significant deterioration in the environmental situation, this creates a real threat to the very existence of our civilization. That is why right now the person-creator of scientific and technological progress should feel an ever greater personal responsibility for the fate of world civilization, for the consequences of the chosen paths and the nature of human development, for its future. It is shown that to overcome the crisis, it is necessary to strengthen the social and humanitarian component of the training of scientific and technical intelligentsia. Only under such conditions can it be ensured that its representatives, who are participants in the creative production process, will be able to support this process from a humanistic standpoint in the necessary direction to shape public opinion. It is also necessary to form the responsibility of the scientific and technical intelligentsia for the technological development of world civilization, to increase in its eyes the role and significance in the technological environment of such categories as spirituality, morality and legality. Without this in the conditions of rapid scientific and technological progress and innovative development, society will certainly face instability, crises and chaos. According to the authors, they can only be overcome by a suitably professionally trained, highly cultured, spiritual and responsible scientific and technical intelligentsia.