Abstract

The article It is often in discussions about the strategic future and the features of the formation of the technosphere we have to deal with position of partial orcomplete denial of such large-scale trends of evolutionary processes as intellectualization of technique and its unwavering autonomy – a gradualseparation of it from humanity and transformation into an independent factor of planetary evolution. The author tries to answer the question: whether human needs technique? This provocative question is rhetorical, really, without the variety of artificial objects, systems and technologies, togetherforming the technosphere, the civilization have no future. Prospects for its ascent to a higher level – entering a new historical era – associated primarily with the emergence of an unusual phenomenon called “intellectualization of technogenesis”.