Rogozin: Russia misses 5th technological level, has to leap into 6th
NOVOSIBIRSK. Nov 15 (Interfax) - Russia has to create conditions for leaping from the fourth to the sixth technological level within the next few years, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said.
"We missed the fifth technological level. Pardon my language, but we messed up," he told the audience at the Technoprom-2013 Forum in Novosibirsk on Friday. He said that computers and other fifth-level technologies accounted for no more than 10% of Russia's defense, space and other sectors.
"So, you can see the complexity of tasks faced by domestic science and industries: our country aims to join the club of states operating on the sixth technological level within a decade," Rogozin said.
"The core of the sixth technological level is the discoveries made in nanotechnologies, biotechnologies, new materials, including strategic materials, new information and communication technologies, cognitive, membrane and quantum technologies, photonics, micro-mechanics, robotics, genetic engineering, virtual reality technologies and thermonuclear energy," the deputy prime minister explained. A synthesis of these areas may lead to the creation of artificial intelligence at some point, Rogozin added.
He suggested that the sixth technological level would grow mature in 25-30 years.
"Certainly, it would be much too early to speak about Russia's accession to the sixth technological level," he said.
In Rogozin's words, the share of elements of the sixth technological level is meager in Russia, which has a developed fourth technological level in half of its production assets, such as heavy machine building, atomic energy and some other sectors, and the third technological in a third of production assets.
Novosibirsk, a scientific and technological center, may be one of the first Russian regions to introduce elements of the sixth technological level, Rogozin stated.
