Abstract
The article considers definitions of the contemporary technology and its social and moral assessment. In the information society, humanitarization of engineering and technical education in general becomes extremely important together with the social-humanitarian knowledge in the interdisciplinary assessment of the scientific-technological development. Technology Assessment (TA) is a new scientific discipline, a theory of assessing and forecasting the development of technology, and a practice of consulting. Based on the TA, algorithms are developed to identify negative effects of technology and to make scientifically sound decisions. An interdisciplinary dialogue on the social assessment of technology should focus not only on technocratic tasks but also on the social-humanitarian methodological and epistemological foundations of the TA. In recent years, this component of the social assessment of technology has influenced the Western-European academic discourse on Responsible Research and Innovation, which reflects the scientific understanding of the importance of ethical reflection of technical activity. Thus, there is an obvious need for the combination of the social-humanitarian expertise of innovative technological projects with technical, mathematical and applied methods in the information age. Contemporary radical changes determined by the scientific-technological revolution require new approaches, methods and forms of interaction between people and communities, while their global nature determines universal ethical principles of these relationships. The post-modern information development of Russia will be accompanied not only by implementation of information technologies in all spheres of life, but also by the social-moral assessment of technology, humanization and humanitarization of engineering, strengthening personal professionalism and creative abilities.
Highlights
The transition of a number of the developed countries to the post-industrial stage in the early 21st century did not change the situation
P. 54] and the level of professional competence of specialists, especially in the field of technology. This is primarily due to the multiplication of the human impact on the world, when a professional mistake can lead to the selfdestruction of mankind or a part of it, for instance, as a result of an “unauthorized” nuclear conflict or a man-made disaster caused by a man’s mistake leading to a failure of the extremely complex technical system
The issue of the social assessment of technology and the general humanitarization of engineering education and activity became a focus of discussions, especially as a theoretical question with practical meaning, which is the conditions for the social assessment of technology in the information society
Summary
The transition of a number of the developed countries to the post-industrial stage in the early 21st century did not change the situation.
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