HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN CONDITIONS OF THE NEW TECHNOLOGICAL OPPORTUNITIES
The article is devoted to the issues of human development - general indicator of the level of human development in the country, which is calculated periodically for cross-country comparison and measurement of poverty, literacy, education, longevity and so on. Evolution of the concept, which determined human development, goes from the indicators of economic growth as objective well-being, through the economic assessment of human ability to bring income to subjective development. At the present stage, it includes the technologies that change both the human and their environment. An example of such technology is convergent nanotechnology, biotechnology, cognitive technology, information technology, "Internet things", ecological technologies and so on. Now these areas of human activity reached the level of development of synergy. Implementation of already carried out major programs within development of the new technologies lets to realize the possible existence of a new reality in such areas as environment, demography, education, sport and so on. As a result there is formed a qualitatively new technosphere, which opens the new horizons of development. The strategies of human development in the 21 century are based on the priorities of health and healthy lifestyle, environmental safety, development of intellectual and educational potential. The use of these technologies will continue to grow, and assessment of prospects and risks of their implementation requires humanitarian evaluation.