Prospects of Civilization in 21st Century: Human Degradation or Transformation

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10.2991/assehr.k.210902.012How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Systemic crisis, Civilization, Human essence, Consumer society, Postmodernism, Digitalization, Depopulation of humanity, Human construction

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the relevant problem of humankind development prospects in the 21st century. The aim of the article is to identify and specify general conditions of the systemic crisis of modern civilization with the crisis recovery having multi-faceted nature – either a new round of progressive high-quality changes, or degradation of humankind up to self-destruction, or transformation based on new values and approaches. The authors analyze various precursors to value-spiritual, mental, technological and biological problems that define to a great extent the future of humanity. The article focuses on such factors of modern civilization development as the formation of modern consumer society, the entry of humanity into the postmodernism era with new values and imperatives, the process of comprehensive digitalization and the risk of depopulation and human biological degradation.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Irina Ponizovkina
AU  - Elena Agibalova
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/09/04
TI  - Prospects of Civilization in 21st Century: Human Degradation or Transformation
BT  - Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities. (Philosophy of Being Human as the Core of Interdisciplinary Research) (ICCESSH 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 73
EP  - 78
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210902.012
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210902.012
ID  - Ponizovkina2021
ER  -