The Risks of the Digital Economy: Information Aspects
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Risks of the Digital Economy: Information Aspects O. V. Syuntyurenko* All-Russian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, Moscow, 125315 Russia *e-mail: [email protected] Received February 3, 2020
Abstract—The multidimensional problem of identifying, assessing, and minimizing threats and risks of the development and application of new technologies within the framework of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, whose core element is information technology, are discussed. All technologies and types of modern technology have both positive and negative consequences for society and carry technological, environmental, economic, and social risks. To a large extent, fundamental information uncertainty, which creates risks, is associated with the processes of forming a new technological order. Based on a systematic approach using the methods of scientometric and multidimensional analysis of data a number of new technological directions are analysed that potentially create the most dangerous risks to the economy and society, which are often not understood even in the professional community. This article contains some conclusions, recommendations, priorities, and the most pressing tasks for developing the interdisciplinary problem of the risks of the development of the digital economy. Keywords: digital economy, cyberthreats, information technology, network infrastructure, Internet of things, risks, robotics, biocyborgs, digital inequality, social programming, information security DOI: 10.3103/S0147688220020082
THE PROBLEM OF MINIMIZING THE RISKS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE DIGITAL ECONOMY The world economy has actually entered the phase of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (in political declarations and the media under the title of the “Digital Economy”). It is characterized by the widespread production application of a number of new technology clusters, first of all, the Internet of things technologies, intelligent robotics, Big Data processing technologies, 3D printing, nanotechnology and nanobiosensorics, artificial photosynthesis, smart power supply networks, biotechnology (including genetic engineering and regenerative medicine), new materials with pre-designed features, and the mobile broadband internet. Information technologies, that is, informatics are the basis for the formation and integration of individual technological clusters in the emerging basic industrial complex of a new technological structure. Already now we can state the widest possible “interweaving” of digital information technologies into the fabric of any production, technological, educational, and managerial processes. On the basis of the global Internet, a single digital environment (infrastructure) is created with the connection of machines and equipment, infrastructure, transport, logistics chains, and organizations, as well as people. The governments of many countries, including the Russian Federation, are also developing financing
programs to restructure their economies in accordance with the trends and requirements of digital reality. Accord
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