Technology and Psychology: the Hypothesis of Techno-Humanitarian Balance

This is a draft conference paper, not to be quoted without permission of the author 2History is the progress of moral tasks. Not doings, but just the tasks, which mankind’s collective might puts be-fore any certain person. The tasks were more and more dif-ficult, almost impracticable; nonetheless, they have been fulfilled – otherwise, all should have fallen to pieces long ago. G. Pomerants [1991] “After the notion of progress was basically discredited, no one dared to ask what mattered for the history of humankind as a whole”, – said William McNeill in the interview to the newspaper “Historically Speaking ” (Vol. IV, #2, Nov., 2002) on his and his son’s forthcoming book [McNeill & McNeill 2003]. Still, the authors indi-cated and welcomed the growing interest in global retrospection among both profes-sional historians and the interdisciplinary scientific community. In this article, we expound some results of cross-disciplinary research on th