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*An acronym for nanotechnology, biotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive science, the popular term for emerging and converging technologies.—Ed.
*The author refers to the Arab Spring, the series of protests and demonstrations across the Middle East and North Africa.—Ed.
*Nikita Nikolaevich Moiseev (1917–2000) was a prominent Russian mathe- matician.—Ed.
1 See V.S. Stepin, Teoreticheskoe znanie (Moscow, 2002).
2 Karl Popper, who devoted his whole life to exposing totalitarianism and who rejected programs of radical social transformation, nonetheless did uphold the idea of “piecemeal social engineering”—in other words, his thinking remained in the context of technogenic civilization.
3 A.A. Zinov’ev, Faktor ponimaniia (Moscow, 2009).