Analyzing the formation of scientific knowledge in the course of historical development, it can be noted that the emergence of science is associated with the emergence of a large number of separate, unrelated fields of knowledge. The next stage was the unification of individual areas of knowledge into more extensive complexes, in the process of expansion of which their specialization took place. On the contrary, the development of technology took place over a long period of time due to key discoveries or advancement in certain areas of knowledge. An example of it would be informational and communication revolution that took place in the 80s of the last century, which led to cardinal transformations in the field of biotechnology, as a result of which the recent nanotechnological revolution occurred.