The Effect of Converging Technologies on the Type of Human Thinking

Abstract

On the basis of analysis of processes of human thinking change, a new image – “clicking human” is asserted to be currently formed. The article considers specific features of thinking, with actions of people included in human-to-machine interaction used as an example; while examining such interface, the author researches effect of converging technologies on human behavior and “life outsourcing” process – redistribution of functions between a person and a technical device. The author introduces principles that are supposed to underlie a new type of thinking and acting of the “clicking human”. The described pattern reduces customary idea of a thinking act of a human down to the pattern of satisfying one’s need.