Predicting Potential of the Systematic Dissemination of General-Purpose Technologies Concept in the Economy

The article attempts a comparative analysis of popular concepts of technological development – industrial revolutions, technological modes, general purpose technologies. It shows the development of ideas about general purpose technologies and the current state of the problem. General purpose technologies are consistently deployed on the scheme “production-transport-information” in accordance with the logic of capital accumulation. Based on the development of the author’s concept of cyclic development of the general purpose technologies complex, the role of digital technologies as key for the emerging third technological megacycle or the third industrial revolution is substantiated. There is a forecast assumption that the full-scale industrial deployment of NBIC-technologies will be in the next technological megacycle, when all industry prerequisites for the effective synthesis of individual components will mature.