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135 The occurrence of technological triad: descriptive concept of today’s totality of reality Pojav tehnološke triade: opisni pojem današnje totalne realnosti Milijana Mičunović, Boris Badurina, Boris Bosančić Oddano: 24. 2. 2016 – Sprejeto: 8. 4. 2016 1.02 Pregledni znanstveni članek 1.02 Review article UDK 316:001:004 Abstract Scientific discourse refers to triads as conceptual structures whose purpose is to em- phasize the connection between concepts included in the description of a certain phenomenon. The famous Popper’s triad is comprised of the world of physical objects and processes (World 1), the world of mental objects, i.e. subjective human experience (World 2) and the world of objective knowledge (World 3), which can be thought of as all the products of thought – the world of information, knowledge, scientific theories, literature, etc. During the past half-century, Information and Communication Tech- nology (ICT) and new media began to change our reality on all three levels. Using a comparative analysis, this paper will examine the impact ICT and new media have on the Popper’s World 1, 2 and 3. As it will be shown, the modern age offers a new conceptual triad the aim of which is not to stand against the Popper’s triad but to introduce new integral elements that intersect and interact with it. In this new triad the world of physical objects is being replaced by the world of virtual reality (i.e. the Virtual World), the world of mental objects is replaced by transmental objects (i.e. the Transmental World) and the world of objective knowledge is being replaced by the world of digitized data/information/ knowledge in the context of developing AI (i.e. the Digital World). These new architec- tonic elements build new conceptual structure the aim of which is to define, describe and represent new interrelated concepts essential for better understanding of today’s totality of reality. They form new ontology of the world which describes reality as in- separable from the concepts of information and technology. Keywords: Popper’s triad, ICT, totality of reality, virtual realities, human-technology in- teraction, artificial intelligence