Worldview as the Matrix of Socio-Philosophical Futurology
The paper analyses the issue of formation of a new picture of the world, adequate to the current development of science, engineering and technology; objective and subjective difficulties of forming a new paradigm of worldview are revealed; fundamental changes in evolution of global socio-natural Universum are discussed. The system of worldview perceptions of the place and role of the human being in nature and in society acts as a matrix determining basic parameters. In the near future, real transformations of social being could happen, boundaries of possible changes in the existence of human society and of global socio-natural integrity can be defined. Key attention is paid to the human being becoming subject of fundamental changes of the deep structures of the material world’s matter. This will shortly make it possible to resolve the problem of providing humankind with resources of production and with necessary conditions for its living environment. The author describes actual achievements in gene engineering which break new ground for genome editing of particular organisms, species and certain ecosystems even, up to the biosphere in general, which makes man a subject of evolution of the Earth’s living matter. Together with the use of bio-techno-informational systems in tracing and correction of changes of fundamental parameters of living organisms’ life activity, this will allow for a significant improvement of quality and lifespan of human beings; it will also provide for the latter’s omni-presence in space and time.