Technological dimension of big history and the cybernetic revolution.

The present paper analyzes the evolution of technology from the beginning of
the human history. A new paradigm to analyze the causes and trends of the
global evolution is introduced. We also describe the direction of technological
transformations, discuss and explain the present and forthcoming technological
changes.
Our analysis of technological evolution mainly focuses on the second half
of the 20th century. We present a detailed analysis of the latest technological
revolution which we denote as ‘Сybernetic’, and give some forecasts about its
development up to the end of the 21st century. It is shown that the development
of various self-regulating systems will be the main trend of this revolution.
We argue that the technological transition of the final phase of the Cybernetic
Revolution will start in medicine, which is to be the keystone of technological
convergence forming the system of MANBRIC-technologies (based on medicine,
additive, nano-, bio-, robotic, IT and cognitive technologies). Today we
are at the threshold of post-human revolution, the era of an intensive impact on
the human body. The authors consider the directions of this revolution such as
considerable life extension, organ replacement, BCIs, robotics, genome editing,
etc. It is very important to understand the mechanisms of technological development
and to measure the possible risks arising from them.