Author:
Sergey D. Bodrunov
S. Y. Witte Institute of Noonomy and New Industrial Development (St. Petersburg)
Abstract:
Our civilization is experiencing an era of qualitative transformations driven by the contradiction between the capabilities of advanced technologies and the economic form of their application. Technologies of the sixth technological paradigm, based on NBICS convergence, create prerequisites for unmanned production and the satisfaction of humanity’s rational needs. However, the capitalist organization of production directs them toward profit extraction and the generation of simulative needs. Resolving this contradiction requires a transition from the economy to noonomy, which relies on criteria of rationality instead of a limited economic rationality focused on inflating value indicators. The article explores the issues of the fundamental transformation of industrial policy in the context of the nootransition – a managed process of movement toward noonomy through the formation of the material base of the new industrial society of the second generation (NIS.2). A key characteristic of NIS.2 consists in a sharp increase in the knowledge intensity of production, where the technological application of knowledge acquires a dominant share compared to the costs of materials, energy, and living labor. Production transforms into nooproduction, based on the displacement of humans from the immediate production process while maintaining control by the human mind embodied in knowledge, technologies, and cultural values. A fundamental redefinition of industrial policy is considered: from stimulating traditional parameters of economic growth (employment, output, profit) to managing an autonomous technosphere and directing it toward satisfying nooneeds. Nooneeds are rational needs formed on the basis of culture, knowledge, creative personality development, and socially meaningful selfimprovement. The technosphere acquires the capacity for self-organization and self-development within set parameters; however, goal-setting, control over permissible means of goal realization, and the blocking of undesirable directions remain the prerogative of human society. As part of solving the problem of accelerating the nootransition, the strategic directions of industrial policy are analyzed: ensuring technological sovereignty in critical areas; the reintegration of science, production, and education; and new industrialization as a transitional stage to knowledge-intensive industries. In the Russian context, the formation of the material base of NIS.2 becomes an imperative of national security and an opportunity to offer the world an alternative to the “dead ends” of the neoliberal development model
Keywords: noonomy, nootransition, industrial policy, NIS.2, knowledge intensity of production, knowledge-intensive product, technological sovereignty, reindustrialization
For citation: Bodrunov S. D. (2026). The Nootransition: Industrial Policy as a Tool for Shaping the Material Base of NIS.2. Noonomy and Noosociety. Almanac of Scientific Works of the S. Y. Witte INID, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 77–87. DOI: 10.37930/2782-6465-2026-5-3-77-87