The Practice of Digital Transformation

The chapter describes the rapid development of digital technologies and their universality, which makes them a lever for economic development. This is also how digital transformation was interpreted. The chapter contains a detailed analysis of this process, which is a source of economic development and profits. This development has led to the emergence of great economic and social projects. Industry 4.0, Cyber-Physical Systems, 4th Revolution. Each of them concerned a slightly different sphere and was governed by a different logic. The first was the area of economy, the second was the organization of large technological processes, such as energy distribution or transport organization. The third project was the most general attempt to formulate social change, commissioned by the major global political and economic stakeholders. Digital transformation is proving to be a large-scale process, leading to the development of the most advanced artificial intelligence technology. The latter can also be understood as a specific and innovative way of managing knowledge, which complements the epistemic transformations described in the previous chapter. At the same time, its most spectacular development takes place in the area of language manipulation. In this way, the final shape of the so-called digital transformation is revealed: as a process of changing the understanding, describing and organizing the world, in which knowledge becomes the key field, the background and course of which are described in the following chapters.