Human and Technological Progress Towards the by Elena G. Popkova HARDBACK

Human and Technological Progress Towards the Socio-Economic Paradigm of the FuturePart 1\nAuthor(s): Elena G. Popkova, Marina L. Alpidovskaya\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: De Gruyter, Germany\nImprint: De Gruyter Oldenbourg\nISBN-13: 9783110632217, 978-3110632217\nSynopsis\nThis book explores the social consequences of digitization. The authors determine the problems, substantiate the perspectives, and offer recommendations for determining the role of human in modern digital society. The scientific concept \""homo digital\"" is developed, and the essence of its formation in the process of evolution of \""homo economicus\"" is studied. The transition from the post-industrial to the information society is also considered. \n\nThe authors show that in the context of the digital economy the problem of economization (commercialization) of non-economic (non-profit) spheres and types of economic activity become more urgent; they are analyzed through the prism of the theory of time in economics..