Ecological and technical picture of the world as an imperative of the sustainable development of modern civilization

The article attempts to substantiate the necessity for studying the developing ecological and technical picture of the world in the consciousness of the “eco-conscious person”, as well as the ecological technosphere, in which its formation is possible. Recently aggravated environmental problems force people to think more and more often about ideological, value and humanistic orientations, prospects of modern civilization. Introduction of technology in many spheres of public and private life attracted the attention of scientists and philosophers, provoked discussions about the nature and significance of social transformations in the technogenic era (philosophical, worldview, value, semantic and sociocultural problems of technology and technical sciences become actual). Although the technosphere as an artificially created reality corresponds to the modern tendencies of people's interaction with the material world, it needs the environmentalization and harmonization of the socio-natural interaction. In the article we give the definition of ecological technosphere and substantiates its development, reveals the essential characteristics of the “eco-conscious person”.