ABSTRACT
Technologies have been playing a significant role in the history of humankind from the very origin of Homo sapiens. Agriculture, building, transportation, and many other human achievements could not have happened without certain technologies. Production revolutions are technological breakthroughs which change the whole structure of society and the way of life. Self-regulation as a broad concept incorporates various aspects of maintaining stable state of a system at all phases of big history and especially at the biological and social ones. Self-regulation is of great importance for big history since it is one of the most developed levels of growing complexity. Biotechnology can help to solve many global issues, for example, to cheapen the production of medicines and foodstuffs including producing and making them in ecologically sound ways that can also keep or make the environment pristine, thereby considerably expanding their production.
