Віртуалізація: штучний світ для штучних людей.
The author of the article attempts to analyze the terms of "virtual reality" and "cyberspace" and the manner in which they determine social field of human being. The article also depicts these inseparable aspects of modern human being to influence on his further development, particularly showing the way an individual exists in real/virtual and real/artificial. The new conditions of development are represented by close interaction between man and technology that generates a new stage in human development such as appearing of the posthuman who loses all human characteristics and transforms into some techno being. The present time turns to be a qualitatively new stage that differs from the previous ones, namely by huge deployment of the modern period of the scientific and technological revolution, the consequence of these processes is posthuman turn. The main content of this turn is that people in their activities go beyond objective reality.