Крылья Икара: о рисках и угрозах цифровой трансформации общества

Abstract

The paper researches the dangers of the digital transformation of the society in various spheres of social life. The authors defined several groups of the digitalization threats, including economic, political, military and legal ones. The coronavirus 2020 pandemic forced many activities to withdraw to the virtual environment, thus exposing the real level of the digital environment in the Russian Federation. Many problems connected with providing the interaction of the digital trends with the practical activity and regulation in various spheres of the social life became obvious. The complex system threats of the digital transformation of the society together with the faults of “the digital transformation (perestroika)” in the Russian reality makes us speak about the fragility of the digital world being constructed. Digitalization, like Icarus wings, is able to raise the human civilization incredibly high but also lead to failure, causing misbalance and destruction of the established social institutions and values.