Technen: Elements of Recent History of Information Technologies with Epistemological Conclusions

During last fifty years we observed a decomposition of the old (understood as a way of creating and interpreting knowledge characteristic for a given civilization epoch) of which was an episteme typical for industrial civilization. Today, the world is differently understood by the representatives of three different cultural spheres: of strict and natural sciences; of human and social sciences (especially by their part inclined towards postmodernism) and technical sciences that have a different episteme than even that of strict and natural sciences. Thus, we observe today not but The book consists of four parts. First contains basic epistemological observations, second is devoted to selected elements of recent history of information technologies, third contains more detailed epistemological and general discussions, fourth specifies conclusions. The book is written from the cognitive perspective of technical sciences, with a full awareness – and discussion – of its differences from the cognitive perspective of strict sciences or human and social sciences. The main thesis of the book is that informational revolution will probably lead to a formation of a new episteme. The book includes discussions of many issues related to such general perspective, such as between a fundamental invention and its broad social utilization; (using paradoxes that are not real, only apparent) of the tradition of sceptical philosophy; based on two positive feedbacks between science, technology and the market etc.