Nanotechnologies, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Other MANBRIC Technologies in the Long-Term Development

In this chapter, Grinin et al. present an analysis of the development of a number of technologies: nanotechnologies, robotics, additive and cognitive technologies, ICT and AI, as well as forecasts for their future. Together with medicine, they are integrating in the united MANBRIC complex (this is an acronym made up of the first letters of seven technologies). Each direction has its own future, problems and coordinate system. The authors try to forecast major breakthroughs for each technology. In general, according to Grinin et al., they have a bright future. The chapter analyzes the possible advances in various technologies, highlights the challenges, problems and difficulties along the way and analyzes the possible negative consequences. A comprehensive analysis of these technologies within a single chapter allows Grinin et al. to show that the final phase of the Cybernetic Revolution will not be a wave of diverse innovations, but a complexly integrated and interconnected set of new generation technologies that will create an era of self-regulating/self-managing systems. The chapter opens up to the reader many new perspectives, ideas, facts and problems that humanity will face in the process of the final phase of the Cybernetic Revolution.