Vědeckotechnická revoluce a postindustriální socialismus Radovana Richty
The scientific and technical revolution and post-industrial socialism by Radovan Richta

Summary/Abstract: The article commemorates the 100th anniversary of the birth of leading Czech scientist Radovan Richta (1924 – 1983). The author identifies the focus of Richta’s lifelong efforts as the study of the problems of the scientific and technical revolution under socialism and its social and human contexts. He became famous in both the East and West for his interdisciplinary study Civilisation at the Crossroads, which was ahead of its time in many ways. Richta’s theory of technological evolution (toolmachine-automation), vision of post-industrial socialism, etc. are considered of particular importance. Richta was one of the co-authors of the term industrial society, one of the first to consider the idea of a global revolution, etc. Richta’s humanistic message remains inspiring even in the light of civilisational crossroads and contemporary crises. Richta (and his teams) can be described as the forerunner of reflections on the knowledge society, the cyber revolution, globalisation, the fourth industrial revolution and the impacts of technologies 4.0 and 5.0, reports of the Club of Rome, the theory of human capital, the systemic approach, the theory of chaos, etc.

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