Will science save humanity?

Authors

  • Evgenii M. Babosov Institute of Sociology, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 1 Surhanava Street, 2 building, Minsk 220072, Belarus

Keywords:

science, I. R. Prigozhin, S. Ph. Huntington, Yo. F. Fukuyama, Yu. N. Harari, A. A. Bolonkin, R. Kurzweil, contemporary challenges, globalisation, global instability, global climate change, digitalisation

Abstract

The article examines the global challenges of our time (globalisation, global instability, global climate change, digitalisation, etc.) and the role of science in resolving them. The history of science testifies that new ideas and theories are put forward most often when, within the framework of existing knowledge, an area of ignorance of the causes of a certain range of phenomena and processes appears. It is noted that Belarus is implementing a comprehensive program for the introduction of digital technologies in production, as well as in the health care, education, and culture systems. The basic components of a full-format digital technology package are powerful centralised and distributed computing resources, software based on artificial intelligence systems. Here, new generation network resources are being mastered, combining Big Data. The role of science in the movement of humanity towards the future is comprehended. The need for the emergence of human civilisation, in the center of which man will live and act, is affirmed. This person is comprehensively developed, multidimensional, creatively transforming the surrounding reality.

Author Biography

  • Evgenii M. Babosov, Institute of Sociology, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 1 Surhanava Street, 2 building, Minsk 220072, Belarus

    academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, doctor of scienсe (philosophy), full professor; chief researcher

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Published

2020-09-27

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No. 3 (2020): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Sociology

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Reflections on a given theme

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Babosov, E.M. 2020. Will science save humanity?. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Sociology. 3 (Sep. 2020), 73–82. DOI:https://doi.org/10.33581/2521-6821-2020-3-73-82.