Toward a technoethical framework for scientific and technical activity in the post-information society

This article substantiates technoethics as an integrative ethical system necessary for the regulation of scientific and technical activity in the transition to a post-information society. The author argues that the post-information society is characterized by a radical transformation of the role of information: data generated by computing technology become an independent ontological unit, leading to new forms of social relations and requiring a revision of traditional ethical regulators. The article analyzes the key tenets of four ethical theories – nanoethics, bioethics, information ethics, and environmental ethics. Each establishes specific boundaries of the permissible in its respective domain: nanoethics regulates the construction of matter, bioethics protects anthropological sovereignty, information ethics defines the principles of digital interaction, and environmental ethics grounds planetary responsibility. Synthesizing these modules, the author formulates a technoethical imperative that demands reversibility, diagnosability, and controllability of any technical intervention. Technoethics is interpreted as a metascientific theory, a «protective tool» aimed at preserving human subjectivity amidst the expanding technosphere.