В статье с опорой на теорию кибернетической революции и вытекающие из нее прогнозы грядущих технологических прорывов, которые будут связаны с увеличением возможностей влияния на человеческий организм, анализируется исключительно важная с точки зрения философии и гуманитарной сферы, биоэтики и футурологии проблема сохранения биологической природы человека. Proceeding from the theory of the Cybernetic Revolution and related forecasts of the coming technological breakthroughs connected with increasing intervention into human organism, the article analyzes the issue of preserving human biological nature which is vitally important in philosophic, humanitarian, bioethical, and futurological terms.

The article analyzes the technological shifts which took place in the second half of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries and predict the main shifts in the next half a century. On the basis of the analysis of the latest achievements in medicine, bio- and nanotechnologies, robotics, ICT and other technological directions and also on the basis of the opportunities provided by the theory of production revolutions the authors present a detailed analysis of the latest production revolution which is denoted as ‘Cybernetic’. There are given some forecasts about its development in the nearest five decades and up to the end of twenty-first century. It is shown that the development of various self-regulating systems will be the main trend of this revolution. The article gives a detailed analysis of the future breakthroughs in medicine, and also in bio- and nanotechnologies in terms of the development of self-regulating systems with their growing ability to select optimal modes of functioning as well as of other characteristics of the Cybernetic Revolution (resources and energy saving, miniaturization, and individualization).
Social Evolution & History. Volume 14, Number 1 / March 2015 p. 125-184