Visualizing Global Socio-Technogenic Human Transformation: Digital Challenges of Living Earth

Abstract

In the XXI century, the world of man and nature develops mainly in socio-technogenic living conditions. Global technospherization of the planet Earth is the most important cause of continuous socio-cultural, techno-medical and biological changes in man. In technical, natural and human studies a human is usually considered from the point of view of only one discipline. This narrow approach leaves its incorrect mark when recreating the new image of a human in the virtual environment of the digital image of the world. Digital Earth technologies establish a link between the spheres: social, biospheric, natural-inanimate and artificial, created by society using a number of important sciences. It is necessary to approach systematically the representation of the evolving human being in the constantly updated digital space of the planet, to supplement the existing developments of scientists with a scientific and philosophical understanding of the interdisciplinary processes of socio-technogenic development of the biosphere life. Scientific visualization of interrelated evolutionary changes in man is of great interest for the Digital Earth project both from the point of view of studying anthropogenesis, and from the point of view of developing promising programs for preserving his biosphere body and natural health in a developing socio-technogenic world.