Social and Humanitarian Expert Assessment of Biomedical Innovations

Abstract

Universal development convergence, which is an intertwinement, interaction and interpenetration of different social spheres, leads to new synergistic effects and rapid transformations of scientific, technological and social development of the society. Nowadays the necessity of introducing effective constituents of ethical and humanitarian comprehension of innovations to science, especially in the field of biomedicine, is becoming increasingly apparent. In this regard, it is of particular interest to compare the opinions of student-age youth and the experts -well-known Russian scientists on the use of new converging technologies and their impact on an individual and society.

Society. Personality. Technologies: Social Paradoxes of Industry 4.0

“…Therefore, it is necessary to consider the problem on a larger scale of social consequences [38] with regard to forthcoming unemployment due to the increasing complexity of techno-society and the substitution of the social actor-person in the sphere of technologised professional practices filling the disappearing niches of traditional industrial professional occupations.…”