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V.V. Bulanov
The article proves that achieving Erich Fromm's dream of creating a healthy society is incompatible with the massive use of information technology. According to Fromm, the values on which a healthy society should be based are related to biophilia. According to Fromm, the modern worship of technology and information technology indicates the influence of one of the forms of necrophilia, the antipode of biophilia. This worship is manifested in the fact that now the elements of necrophilia are expressed even more clearly in the emerging digital person than in the cybernetic personality of a fan of technology.
healthy society, biophilia, necrophilia, cybernetic personality, digital person.