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Human life is changing every day. Innovative technologies are constantly being created, some discoveries are made, new information appears. In a word, time moves forward. And life also does not stand still.

That is why those skills and abilities that were useful to a person several decades (not to mention centuries) ago, at present, are not completely unnecessary, but lose their value and relevance against the backdrop of modern rhythm and living conditions. There are, of course, such skills that will be useful to a person at any time and, so to speak, in any world, for example, the ability to communicate, or, and. But then we will talk about those skills that any person should have if he wants to develop, be successful, achieve goals and live a harmonious, comfortable and fulfilling life in modern world.

Prologue

Today it is almost impossible to imagine that our mothers and fathers did not yet know what a portable computer is or how you can communicate with a person located on another continent using a cell phone. We, in turn, react with a kind smile when we are told that a letter could be delivered to the addressee for several weeks, or we shake our heads when we hear how someone developed photographs in a dark room under the light of red lamps and with the help of some kind of chemical solution. This is really hard to believe, but all this was the reality of people only some 20-30 years ago. And today's reality, if our grandmothers saw it on TV, they would perceive it as something fantastic and absolutely unreal.

If you try to look at the presented topic from a more practical point of view, then you can be well puzzled and provide yourself with food for thought for a long time. Here, for example, where should one go to study and what profession to choose in order to be sure that “tomorrow” it will not turn out to be irrelevant and unnecessary? How to educate your children and how to educate them so that they can achieve success and become full members of society when they grow up?

These and many other similar questions today can be called simply burning, because. the quality of our life as a whole depends on the answers to them. And, if we are practitioners, not theorists, if we want to be those who are really capable of achieving something, then we must be flexible, and for this we need to start mastering new skills that will be modern for at least the next few years. decades and possibly even longer.

But what should we focus on in order not to get into trouble? What will allow us to harmonize with the ever-changing world? According to experts in the future of technology from the Institute for the Future (IFTF), located in Palo Alto (California, USA), there are six dominant factors that will influence the changes in the world in the future:

• Increased life expectancy
• The era of global development of computer technology
• Computed world
• The latest developments in the media
• Organizations with a superstructure
• Globalization

It is these factors that determine the complex of new skills that a person needs to master in the present 21st century.

21st century human skills

So, there are only ten basic skills that modern man needs to devote time to mastering.

Ability to select information

With the development and changes in people's lives, an increasing amount of information "noise" will appear. For this reason, it is very important and necessary to learn how to filter incoming information, extract from its huge stream only what is really important, and filter out everything that is secondary and second-rate. This skill implies work on the mental perception of processed information, which makes possible the successful development of a person at the social level.

Ability to think outside the box and flexibly

Nowadays the most effective solutions many problems can be found only outside the boundaries of any system. If a person knows how to think outside the box, as well as adapt to changing conditions, he can most productively resolve issues of absolutely any complexity, and find positive sides even in the most seemingly hopeless situations.

Ability to understand meaning

If we compare a person, for example, with a mechanism, it will not be difficult to notice that the mechanism does not have the ability to understand the hidden meanings, subtexts and many meanings of the received message. A person, in turn, is able to develop in himself the ability to recognize many "pitfalls" when interacting with other people, as well as to draw the right conclusions based on the meager amount of information received.

social intelligence

Social intelligence, as a quality, will have even greater value than the IQ. Well-developed communication skills can be considered a guarantee that a person will be able not only to create the most suitable environment around him, but also. Through the skillful separation of various manifestations of other people, such as, for example, tone, mood or, you can repeatedly.

Ability to work with modern media

It's no secret that in our time, websites called blogs are already considered to be full-fledged mass media. Also social networks, along with them, are the space where people communicate, and not only entertaining or, but also business. Mastering modern media offers a person a wide range of opportunities, from meeting new people and searching for information to making deals, communicating with clients, etc.

The versatility of skills and

Today, being a professional in any one direction is no longer enough. The main and main task of a person today and in the near future should be, because. the greatest value will be possessed by people who are developed in many ways. In addition, such people are more practical, because they can approach the solution of even one problem from many sides, and are also able to establish contact and find mutual language with professionals in other fields.

Ability to think projectively

This skill is the ability and process of achieving them from the initial to the final stage, as well as the ability to organize all the resources that are available to achieve the desired result. In addition, the ability to think projectively requires a person to be able to set tasks in a simple form and interact in the process of implementing plans with many different contexts. Skill can also be safely attributed here.

The ability to calculate

The ability of a person to process large amounts of information and determine its reliability and significance in each individual case is becoming increasingly relevant. In the modern world, every day a colossal amount of all kinds of data appears, which a person should be able to reduce to simple and clear algorithms of actions.

Collaboration in the virtual space

It is easy to see that now there is an increasing number of employees of different firms and organizations. And great importance in all this has the ability of a person, as well as the organizations themselves, to organize the process of remote work and cooperation with other people and organizations in the virtual space of the Internet.

Intercultural Competence

As before, a person's knowledge of one or more is a very useful skill. But only now this is not enough - today, for the most productive and effective interaction with people from other countries, you already need to be familiar with their culture, traditions, customs, ethical and moral standards. In addition, workers of different nationalities can now be found even within a single company, which is why intercultural competence is even more relevant.

And, in conclusion, we can say that many people do not make any effort to master new skills and abilities. They are guided by not very correct arguments, reflecting on the fact that the future is still far away, and for now you can make do with what you have. In fact, the future is already very close - it can come tomorrow. Therefore, do not delay until it is too late. Now you have every chance to step into a new day with the skills that will be useful in it.

With the advent of the third millennium and the 21st century, our planet has entered the next, new stage of civilizational processes and the scientific and technological revolution. Of course, at first glance, such a phenomenon is characteristic and is due, first of all, to the historical circumstances of the time, which form the system of a new worldview over the years, with the change of centuries and millennia. Such a property to improve suggests that a person progresses in his development at each period of time and thus becomes the creator of the world around him, in which he lives, establishes new laws, does not adhere to these new laws, gives birth to a new generation and eventually dies naturally. This pattern should suit every person, provided that there is not a single encroachment on the right of peaceful and secure coexistence. But, as we can see, absolutely opposite processes have been observed in the world community of the 21st century in recent times; processes that each time harmonize less and less and coincide with the laws of nature, human morality and even the Almighty.

The rapid development of the latest computer technologies, science, and technology has greatly facilitated human life on Earth: it completely replaced manual labor, which prevailed for centuries, with technical labor, when the same hands made tools that accelerated the production of necessary products. Modern man does not need to "manually" cultivate the land, produce fire and fuel, sew clothes and design vehicles. Once upon a time, in the old days, the invention of a balloon, an airplane, a train, a car, a telephone, radio and television was something extraordinary, incomprehensible, amazing. Now all these things have entered the life of everyone so much that we do not even notice them around. There is only one reason - humanity has turned a new page in history, where material and technical values ​​​​have gained wide popularity, and such things as morality, faith, love and peace are fading into the background. The man of the 21st century is identified with mass computerization and weapons, cloning, the development of terrorism, material enrichment, the lust for power and war. What should be expected after a hundred years of this way of life? The answer is unequivocal: man will destroy himself and all life on the planet with his own hands!

We stopped reading books, visiting libraries, museums, theaters and cinemas, we forgot about real, natural human feelings and emotions. We have replaced all this with the computer and the Internet, with which we spend most of our lives; we don’t know what real live communication with a person is, real sensations from a book read in the original, and not on the display, from a watched performance or movie. This is not noticeable to the naked eye, but a person degrades in his cultural and spiritual development, completely merges with the technogenic sphere and changes his mind, soul and heart to the so-called “electronic surrogate”, who thinks and feels instead of him. Soon we will turn into robots or zombies that can only perceive, not comprehend information. In this case, human civilization is predetermined for extinction if it does not have time to think about its actions and fails to successfully combine the best intellectual and spiritual needs.

Recently, the demand of American medical scientists for the legalization and legalization of human cloning has gained wide publicity. I am very glad that it did not find support from the American president and was perceived rather ambiguously by the world community. The powers that be, represented by foreign scientists, are once again trying to sow enmity between the church and science. If we allow, even partially, such an invention as cloning to progress, we will expose ourselves to fatal danger. The essence of this danger is very simple: the fact of the natural appearance of a person is gradually fading into the background, faith in the Almighty is disappearing, a wave of atheism is spreading among society, and experiments on cloning famous historical figures will cause the threat of interethnic and racial conflicts.

Now no one is surprised when once again he hears on radio and television or reads in newspapers information reports about mass terrorist acts in various parts of the world. Words - "terrorism", "weapons", "bloodshed" and "war" become topics for conversation not only in narrow circles of the political elite, but are also being actively discussed in society. The events of September 11, 2001 in the United States significantly contributed to changes in the political atmosphere of the world and once again proved that not a single state in the world, regardless of its military or economic might, is protected from terror. A man who is controlled by a thirst for power and wealth will stop at nothing, he takes up arms and goes to brutally kill other people. Even faith in the highest heavenly powers does not stop such people, as evidenced by military conflicts on " sacred ground"- in Jerusalem and Bethlehem. But, as we see, no steps are being taken by the superpowers in the fight against the militarization of the world. The United States, which “felt the evil of terror on its own nation,” continues to pursue an aggressive diplomatic policy towards Russia and the countries of the Middle East. Thousands of innocents human casualties during the military anti-terrorist operation in Afghanistan will never serve as an excuse for the American people and will never become a means of eradicating war sentiment in the world.

If we continue to allow material values prevail over cultural and spiritual ideals, then the portrait of a person of the 21st century will not change. He will forever forget about peace and harmony, about goodness and love, about faith and hope, he will perish, disappear from the face of the Earth. He will do it with his own hands!

Today, researchers of society - sociologists, psychologists, social philosophers - identify a new driving force, an innovative avant-garde, conditionally called "People of the XXI century"
Of course, in fact, we are all in this, the 21st century - but it turns out that in their ideas about life, in their life maps, a significant part of the population "lags behind", still continues to strive for the usual way of life, formed decades ago, back in the century 20th. And only a small part in their aspirations and plans, in their way of life corresponds to today's dynamic time.
Do you consider yourself a "People of the 21st century"?
Radio decoding

On the air of radio "Moscow speaking" - presenter Igor Igorev, as well as Pavel Lebedev, director of the "Internet World" project of the Public Opinion Foundation and Mark Sandomirsky, psychotherapist

I.I. Who are the people of the 21st century? How do they live, what are they like? Successful Russians worry about pervasive corruption, administrative pressure on business, and Russia's intellectual degradation. They understand that the country is decrepit in socio-economic and cultural terms, but do not know how to help it, but only state the fact. Among the people who are present on the Internet, the same group of people of the 21st century stands out. These are people who have mastered technology, advanced people. What do they think of themselves?

P.L. - Indeed, the use of information technology is one of the integral features modern people. However, in this study, highlighting the people of the 21st century, we understand that some of them do not yet use the Internet. The people of the 21st century are people who learn new values. Accordingly, they view Russia through them, their lives, aspirations, and so on. At the same time, technology remains important to them. But they, in my opinion, have an instrumental attitude towards technology.

I.I. - All past years were held under the slogan "go abroad". For quite a long time there was a fascination with the West. And now, in all Internet communities, successful businessmen, people of the 21st century, believe that this time has passed. Now they are oriented differently. What is it connected with? With the fact that their values ​​have changed, perhaps the West did not accept them, and they, offended, went into their hole?

P.L. - In my opinion, 2 trends are important here at the same time. On the one hand, this is the stabilization within the country, on the other hand, the mobilization of people in connection with the crisis. Internal calls simply reoriented people.

M.S. - In my opinion, on the one hand, it plays a role life experience, understanding that in the West not only no one is waiting for anyone, but also a significant part of the seekers a better life there he finds himself in the position of third-class citizens. On the other hand, there is a psychological defense mechanism, the ability to explain what a person does not succeed by saying that it is wrong and unnecessary. And what a person has is recognized as necessary and good. You can compare Russia and the West. From a psychological point of view, the representations in your research about the people of the 21st century are a mirror image of what Americans call generation Y, generation Z. There is a certain age divide, a boundary between people who were already born in the era of computers, the Internet, digital communications, modern technologies, and people whose childhood and youth passed in the pre-Internet era. There is a fundamental difference between them. Even when we pronounce the phrase “people of the 21st century” to some of our radio listeners, it reminds us that in Soviet times one could hear about how wonderful they would be when heaven on earth comes, that is, communism. The people of the 21st century are ordinary people who live with us. They simply state the state of affairs that already exists today. People who actively use new information technologies from childhood, from youth, are psychologically different from other generations. In the work of psychologists, different generations of fathers and children in the computer sense are called digital natives and digital migrants. These are people who live in digital conditions all the time, and people who are over 40 years old. For them, new technologies are something attracted later into their lives. Even the habitual way the brain functions is different for both. Young people of the digital generation, people of the 21st century, are more rational, more logical, somewhat less emotional. So they plan their lives. Your research shows that people, in addition to the active use of new technologies, are distinguished by their propensity for financial planning, planning their lives, a reasonable attitude towards their health, and the search for a new desire for all sorts of changes, accomplishments, and innovations in life.

I.I. - This is the middle class, which is not named, but is present. It is called the people of the XXI century. What is innovative in the fact that these people use new technology, what is new in the consumer backlog that we have now? They invent their own lives. And too widespread use of the Internet suggests that life is constantly changing. There is constant progress, but nothing has changed in the country for centuries. It seems that there is growth, a person is constantly moving, improving. But this is only superficial, it does not happen in real life, all this remains only in the virtual world. Maybe here lies the main mistake in understanding people of the 21st century?

P.L. - In my opinion, when we talk about people of the 21st century, we must understand that people before that were people of the 20th century, the 19th century. There has always been an active innovative group of people who move forward everyday life, trying to achieve something, pulling the rest of society along with them. But we must understand that technologies that are largely virtual are already heavily immersed in reality. The confrontation between the real and the virtual, in my opinion, is decreasing every day. All this is so close to real human experience that it is no longer possible to separate them.

M.S. - All the changes in the way of life of people, in their views, values ​​that we are now observing naturally follow from the fact that the way of organizing society is changing. It's about about the economy, production. We live in a time of scientific and technological revolution. The society is moving from the so-called industrial to the post-industrial or information society. True, in some countries, for example, in the United States of America and Europe, this transition has already taken place, and we are standing on its threshold. You mentioned the middle class. The people of the 21st century are the new middle class. His change clearly shows how it all happened. Approximately 50 years ago, the people of today's middle class were small proprietors. It was the backbone of society, interested in stability. Then ideas about the middle class changed. 30-40 years ago, the marketing approach became the main one. Then it began to be considered that the middle class is people who had such a level of income that is higher than that of the low-income, but does not allow them to reach the upper strata. Who became the middle class? These are the people who are representatives of the most demanded professions. They are not related to production, not to agriculture but with information. We are talking about a computer, the Internet, processing numbers in different ways.

I.I. - When such a person goes to the drilling rig, he does not succeed, there is no signal, one message is sent for 2 hours. This is how the middle class ends. This remains only in megacities, in civilization. If you move a little bit, nothing is caught.

P.L. You are right as long as it is. But from this point of view, little has changed in our economy, production, and the social sphere. But with regard to information technologies, means of communication are changing rapidly. There are no fundamental problems and difficulties here. Let's go back to how people in Soviet times imagined the future. Words that the current generation of people will live under communism, uttered 50 years ago, have not come true. But there were also words that the current generation of people will live in a period of singularity. This time is not far off, computers will become smarter than humans. Everything is going to this, technologies are developing very quickly. Those changes that occur in consciousness, in behavior, reflect this process.

I.I. - Why is this happening? What are these people offering? They sit in Odnoklassniki, they don’t like anything else.

M.S. “It cannot be said that they do not know how to help the country. As our research shows, they are trying to change the world from themselves, helping themselves and their neighbors. By making a small contribution to the development of society and their environment, they fix a large number of social problems. Among them, they most often point to problems related to the development of the economy, society, the fight against corruption, and so on. These are problems that, in the opinion of the population, are very significant. These people are aimed at some kind of achievement, they are acting. They start with themselves, because it is easier for them to change something.

P.L. – This is only one side of the coin. The new generation of people of the 21st century, the new middle class, the information society, along with its advantages, also has character traits which can be called shortcomings. On the one hand, they are more practical, on the other hand, they are more individualistic. They more clearly apply the principle that every man is for himself. Therefore, they all start with themselves. It is unrealistic from their point of view to do something. This point of view is the prevailing one. They have a slightly different desire for knowledge. On the one hand, there is a constant thirst for new things, the search for information on the Internet. But the more this information accumulates in our information age, the more information depreciates.

(Listen to the details of the interview.

We stopped walking the streets, we communicate with friends only through the Internet, and the TV channel is the sponsor of watching the sunset. The treatment of the common cold, which we trust to doctors, costs us money. But earlier people did not have such a material basis, and the treatment of the common cold was carried out with the help of traditional medicine.
In the 21st century, we simply cannot imagine most of what our parents tell us: queues for cheese and meat, which were on store shelves only in limited quantities, the opportunity to relax only in the territory of our country, the shortage of clothes, and so on. Now we have the opportunity to worry, in fact, only about our financial situation. There is nothing complicated at first glance - just work well and earn money for any of your needs.
It turns out that, on the one hand, there is nothing wrong with such progress - we just need to do our job well and increase income levels.
However, this progress affects the change in human essence. In a critical situation, we remain completely helpless. We were fired from work - we, in fact, lost our means of subsistence. We turned off the lights at home - our equipment does not work, and we feel lonely and abandoned. No internet connection - we can't order food delivery from the restaurant. The world is changing, people are changing, ideas about the meaning of life, about goodness, about generations. Living in the real world is very dangerous and even harmful. People became so embittered, became nervous and selfish. Now there are few people with a good soul and heart, they are few. And such units sometimes make you think about the meaning of the lived, the meaning of life.
The man of the 21st century has become more materialistic, for him there are fewer prohibitions and secrets, but more opportunities and choices. The outlook has increased, now the planet does not seem to be infinite, the cosmos and microcosm are being actively studied. And now digital nanotechnologies are capable of creating life that seemed fantastic yesterday.
In a rapidly changing world, a person needs to constantly be on the move, searching for self-improvement. If a person does not cope, he is no longer among the first, problems arise - as a result, depression and fears for tomorrow. An unstable and rapidly changing world, a large flow of conflicting information - this is one of the factors influencing the moral state of a person and society today.
But this is all about adults, consciously thinking people, but what about modern children? Children born at the very beginning of the century, in the so-called zero years, are now much written and discussed about them. Often we hear "indigo child", and the concept of "indigo" is familiar to everyone. But do all modern children have the quality of indigo? And if not all, then why? For me, the answer is that the main difference of the beginning of the millennium is maximum number degrees of freedom. There are no rigidly fixed conditions, everything is flexible, mobile, unpredictable. And this is the trick. After all, small children with unpredictable abilities, brought up by their parents and grandparents, will also unpredictably manifest the values ​​of the time period of the 20th century.
All of the above can be considered the answer to the question posed. I am sure that among us there are no nervous and selfish, embittered modern people of the 21st century. After all, our profession does not allow us to be like that.
Bernard Shaw once said: “I am sure that if I had to choose: to live where the children's din does not stop for a minute, or where it is never heard, then all normal and healthy people would prefer the incessant noise to the incessant silence” .
In my opinion, teachers are the most normal and healthy people of the 21st century!

Larisa KISKINA, Chairman of the Council of Young Teachers of ZelAO

In modern society, the positions of the human body shell as an object of study for many sciences are being strengthened: anatomy, biology, physiology, genetics, psychology, anthropology, philosophy, cultural studies.

Unlike all other historical periods, when almost the only ways of knowing the body were contemplation and touch, now it is possible to penetrate to the molecular and genetic levels of functioning.

On the one hand, the human body ceases to be a mystery: it is practically "in the palm of your hand" by scientists - under a microscope, in a tomograph, under x-rays.

On the other hand, the question of the relationship between the body and the psyche, the body and society with its norms and rules, the individual body and the collective body is still open and debatable.

Now the body is not only an object of commercial and consumer interest, but also a sphere of application of efforts to preserve health, physical fitness, and external attractiveness.

The beauty and fashion industry around the world is investing heavily in the promotion of "role models": images of "reference" appearance.

In this regard, a variety of procedures aimed at improving the appearance are gaining popularity.

Any interference and violation of the integrity of the body, voluntary or undesirable, has a strong impact on the safety of the individual's psyche.

The development and implementation of innovative technologies in theoretical and practical medicine gives rise to complex philosophical and ethical problems: the status of the embryo and the cloned body, genetic experiments to create "ideal people", artificial cultivation and transplantation of organs, death and euthanasia.

Modern society should comprehend in a new context a variety of philosophical issues relating to the body, consciousness, self-identity.

The age of information technology has put mankind before considering one of the most objective and pressing problems - body informatization.

According to AI scientist and theorist Ray Kurzweil, “By the end of the 21st century, there will be no clear distinction between humans and robots.

After all, what is the difference between a person who has improved his body and brain with the help of computational and nanotechnologies, and a robot that surpasses its human creators in intelligence and sensitivity?

Theories of the information space and artificial intelligence lead, according to M.N. Epstein, to the lifelessness of the body - "semiotization and devitalization, the attitude towards the body as an information machine capable of simulating any biological functions and surpassing nature in this."

If in the Middle Ages the distance from the body was due to switching attention to the spiritual component, and during the Renaissance the body was perceived as a mechanism, then in the modern world similar processes are the product of the development of information technology, the transition to life in cyberspace.

The so-called perspective of a post-corporeal civilization poses the tasks of value-semantic saving before philosophy. human body and appearance.

Thus, in modern science and public consciousness, the body can be analyzed in the following contexts: as a subject of informational or biogenetic decoding and transformation; as an object of worship and imitation, trade and professional activity.

The external appearance of the human body is initially set by genetic information transmitted from parents, and is as individual as possible.

That is, appearance is the very first and obvious individualizing feature.

Each person is able to influence his appearance in a certain way with the help of various procedures.

The motivation for such actions is multifaceted: to express the characteristic features of the personality; define yourself in relation to a social or religious group; achieve respect and acceptance; meet the standards of beauty and attractiveness.

The attitude to human corporality is a question that has tormented the minds of philosophers, culturologists, psychologists, historians, and anthropologists for thousands of years.

It can be said that the human body, as a special object of scientific and public interest, has come a long way, knowing both humiliation, and exaltation, and standardization.

If philosophers, culturologists, historians and artists addressed the beautiful and beautiful quite often and, accordingly, it is quite simple to trace the history of aesthetic thought, then the situation with the ugly is more complicated - it was always mentioned in passing, reluctantly.

Therefore, it is assumed that the history of ugliness has something in common with the history of beauty, because they can be considered as two sides of the same coin.

The concepts of beauty and ugliness are defined in relation to a particular culture and a particular historical period.

Moreover, no matter how the ideas about times and cultures changed, the minds of people were absorbed by the idea of ​​finding a common denominator - to determine the beautiful and the ugly relative to an unchanging eternal pattern.

However, research in the field of psychology of appearance and beauty brought unusual results: in the modern world, despite the replicated standards of external attractiveness, there are no objective ideals, there are only subjective ideas of specific people.