title: To the question of the limits of progress: Is singularity possible?
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metadata.value: Shestakova, Irina G.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-09-13T16:16:10Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-09-13T16:16:10Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-09
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metadata.value: Shestakova I. G. To the question of the limits of progress: Is singularity possible? Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2018, vol. 34, issue 3, pp. 391–401.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu17.2018.307
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/14817
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metadata.value: This article explores the idea accepted in the social philosophy at the turn of 20th–21st century,
  that the exponential growth of the speed of progress results in the technological singularity.
  In natural science, the process characterized by initial exponential acceleration
  typically reaches a saturation phase and then develops according to another mathematical
  low. This does not mean to imply that the initial phase continues uninterruptedly, but may
  indeed consist of early outflows to the saturation phase and transition to plateaus of speed.
  If such a description is typical in natural science, would not predictions for science and
  technology, in general, be characterized by perhaps not apocalyptic conclusions but the appearance
  of such singularities? Would it not be expected from processes in natural science
  that the acceleration of scientific progress might be replaced by deceleration and a complete
  stoppage of acceleration? Mechanisms for retarding acceleration of info-communications
  are revealed in the adaptive capabilities of individual approaching planning horizons, and
  specifically in the investment in the military-industrial complex, which has its own logic
  representing a direct driving force for progress in the civil sphere. At the same time, despite
  possible dampening of acceleration of progress in science and technology, progress itself
  and social transformations will not stop, and will not even slow down, but continue with the
  speed, which will become permanent.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 34; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: social philosophy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: scientific and technical progress
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: infocommunication
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: development speed
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: planning horizon
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: exponent
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: singularity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: determinism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: limits of progress
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: To the question of the limits of progress: Is singularity possible?
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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