New paradigm of social development in the context of digital economy

Abstract

The relevance of the research is connected to the fact that in the context of the coming era of the industrial revolution 4.0, the globalization of the economy is the irreversible process that it involves more and more countries, regions and peoples. The authors guess that the digital economy is one of the consequences of the globalization of the world economy. The key idea consists in the suggestion that the digital economy constructs a basis for shaping new type of global human civilization. The goal of the study is the interdisciplinary analysis of the impacts of the digital economy on changing the paradigm of social development. One of the important results of the research is the thesis that the increasing the influence of the digital technologies on the social and economic life of people are changing model of thinking and behavior of contemporary peoples. The authors come to the conclusion that in the space of the digital economy the information and communication technologies contribute to break the traditional value system of society. The authors note that such values as information, mobility, speed, sociability, comfort, time saving, quality of services-begin to dominate the consciousness and behavior of a person in the context of digitalization of socio-economic life. It is revealed that these values are included in the field of the philosophical concept of pragmatism. These values are focused on obtaining mainly material benefits. The authors substantiate the need to develop the academic discussion about the risk of leveling traditional spiritual values, which for centuries were formed the meaning and value of human existence in society and nature.