THE POWER MACHINE IN THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION ERA: HISTORICAL AND LEGAL SURVEY

Abstract

The authors of the article aim at comprehending the power machine in the context of state-legal processes, whose dynamics are to a certain extent determined by industrial revolutions. Transformations gave rise to technological and digital forms of political communication. Currently, the nature of traditional political institutions and forms is changing during the third and approaching fourth industrial revolutions. Humankind is not fully aware of innovative trends in the field of power relations, institutional and functional features of the power machine, prospects for the development of management, and the mechanism of domination and subordination. The information society and digital forms of power solve some issues but become problems themselves. Thomas Aquinas believed that a person should take care of three types of relationships: with reason, God, and other people. Our contemporaries are more involved in communication with gadgets. Information, including legal information, is consumed as a finished product: the power machine decides each time what opinion is true or false. Of course, the "digit" seriously changes state and law in general: there is an electronic democracy, an electronic constitution, or an electronic justice. The global expansion of technologies and techniques can no longer guarantee security, state loses its leadership in the system of power relations in a post-industrial society.