I. The modern world can be seen as a world of specialists. Everything important in the world is done by specialists; and all non-specialists are engaged in auxiliary work - for these same specialists. You can also see it differently - as the world of the owners of this world; this is the more traditional view. But to understand the world in terms of its progress, owners can be left out of the equation. As will be shown below, the owners do not direct the most global, deepest flows of world trends. Their owners only saddle them and ride them.II. This is a socio-philosophical essay about the main challenge facing Western civilization - the loss of its people's original human qualities and original human integrity, that is, everything that allowed this civilization to be built. And this is the story of the society that will be built as a result of these changes. Written from the perspective of the Western worldview, so it is advisable to take into account that many forecasts for the West are already a thing of the past for Russia. III. This text develops the theme “Civilization, machines, specialists.” Some additions and details as a separate story. It is also a corresponding addition to the text “Cheloveynik”; the inhabitants of Cheloveynik are considered here.