№ 2018/4

The author shows that digital development is an integral part of a more general process of transi-tion from the industrial-market to the information-network economy and formation of a reconstruc-tive type of development. The essence of the digital economy as a system of economic relations related to production, distribution, exchange and consumption of goods is determined on the basis of the use of digital technologies based on a discrete coding system of information processing and transmission. It is shown that the development of digital technologies is correlated with the structure of human thinking.
Based on determining the reflection interaction in the triad of "subject-object-activity", the author reveals the structure of digital development, and justifies the interpretation of the virtual as an exte-riorized ideal transformed into an external process, which acts as a reality in relation to human consciousness. The development of digital technologies forms a whole world of the virtual, which exists alongside and in conjunction with the real one, resulting in the world becoming hybrid. The contradictory relationship between digitalization, capitalization and socialization is shown and the challenges of society arising in the process of digital development are clarified. The emphasis is placed on the importance of forming digital competences and ensuring a proper social quality of the development.

Keywords:digital development, digital economy, digital technologies, digitalization, capitalization, socialization, the virtual, the real, hybrid world