THE CONCEPT OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN PHILOSOPHICAL AND SOCIOHUMANITARIAN DISCOURSES

Abstract

The study clarified the heuristic potential of the “industrial revolution” concept in philosophical and socio- humanitarian discourses. The methodological approaches of modern social philosophy and the history of philosophy were used to implement the study. During the study, the content of industrial revolutions in the history of the development of human civilization was demonstrated, with an emphasis not so much on production as on the socio-cultural, anthropological, existential challenges created by them.Particular attention was paid to the fourth industrial revolution (new professions, artificial intelligence, nanobiotechnologies, the Internet of Things, etc.), which is a challenge of a technocratic nature (the cult of technology, knowledge, and innovation), provokes confusion in the individual regarding the prospects for professional self- realization, exacerbates competition between natural human intelligence and artificial intelligence, etc. It was possible to demonstrate the existing spectrum of interpretations of the prospects for the development of humanity – from optimistic, when a person is freed from routine work, handing it over to machines, robots, and artificial intelligence, to extremely pessimistic, when technological achievements of civilization in the era of Industry 4.0 create threats to world security. The article analyzes the concept of the fifth industrial revolution as a theory that describes a humanistic turn in civilizational progress: it was possible to demonstrate that the technocracy of the fourth industrial revolution with risks, when technologies become a challenge, can be overcome through the development of production and social processes, the center of which is the creative personality, and robotization, the Internet, artificial intelligence will act as pragmatic tools for liberating a person from uncreative processes.