Digitalization: Legal Concepts and Constructions, Narratives and Terms and their Features (certain remarks as per General Legal Theory and International Law aspects)

Abstract

The article deals with both topical and not always clearly visible legal problems caused by modern processes that occur in the material world and its comprehension, as a result of the so-called “IV Industrial Revolution” and the fifth and sixth “technological orders” (which are mostly enclosed within the framework of technical/technological transformations in the economy, industry, agriculture, science and society in whole, and their outcome — digitalization, robotization, “artificial intelligence”, platforms and “platform law”, digital technologies, “network law” / cyber law, “electronic identity”, etc.). In the course of the research, the author’s gaze focuses on sometimes oppositely charged, with a multidirectional force of effect and various facets available in the very essence or the consequences of the phenomena under consideration, including the wide and rapid proliferation of the concepts and the theories of “accelerated speed of changes in the material world”, “the laws of disruption” and the impact thereof on the law.