On the Emergent Episteme of Knowledge Civilization Era

In the era of knowledge civilization, the concept of episteme introduced by (Foucault 1972) cannot be restricted to historical studies, can be applied also to analyze the current situation and future developments. After the middle of 20 century, the episteme of industrial civilization era was disintegrating and three essentially different episteme of three cultural spheres developed divergently. This concerns the separate episteme of hard and natural sciences, the distinct episteme of technology, and the episteme of social sciences and humanities that is itself diversified, with some extreme versions represented by post-modern social philosophy. There is a need of a new integration of the episteme for all sciences, humanities and technology. This need was stressed, e.g., by social sciences, but we present here the arguments for such need from the opposite side, of hard sciences and technology, which might lead to different conclusions.