Cybernetic Revolution and MANBRIC Technologies. When, How and Where Will the Forthcoming Breakthrough Start?

According to the authors’ concept, the Cybernetic Revolution is the last of the major production (technological) revolutions in all history following the Agrarian and Industrial Revolutions. It is a major transition, from the Industrial Production Principle to production and service provision based on the implementation of self-regulating/self-managing systems. The first phase of this revolution began in the 1950s and 1960s and brought the development of powerful information technologies. Between the 2030s and the 2070s, the final phase of this revolution will lead to a new level of self-operated control, namely, to the level of self-regulating/self-managing systems, which can operate with no human intervention. Grinin et al. have described these systems in the previous chapter. In the present chapter, the authors study the main directions of the final phase of the Cybernetic Revolution, which will form a peculiar and closely related cluster of innovative directions for the development of technologies. This complex Grinin et al. call the MANBRIC complex/convergence. This is an acronym that includes medicine, additive (3D printers), nano- and biotechnologies, robotics, IT, and cognitive sciences., The authors show that a number of reasons medicine will be the first sphere to start the final phase of the Cybernetic Revolution.