System analysis of the development of information-communication technologies

Abstract

The article sets the task of substantiating the need for a philosophic-methodological analysis development of information-communication technologies (ICT). A multilevel classification of ICT is proposed. It is concluded that by now the possibilities of traditional ICT, which over the past years have been the engine of economic progress, have exhausted. The latest technologies of the third and fourth industrial revolutions are fundamentally different from traditional ICTs. Their influence is not limited to production and extends to all types of human activity. It is becoming increasingly apparent that the active development of technology will soon change industry, transport, and the economy as a whole. Technologies form a rather vast disordered space that is constantly expanding. At the same time, technological innovations can have both positive and negative effects. Therefore philosophical and methodological understanding, development of methods for analysis and selection of technologies for specific enterprises and organizations is necessary. To comprehend the predicted changes, the necessity of applying interdisciplinary knowledge, and in particular, the theory of open systems, is substantiated. With the combined use of industrial (advanced industrial) and digital technologies, one of the most important regularities of system theory is manifested - the regularity of emergentness, i.e. there is the effect of the appearance of new system properties. Knowledge of the principles and laws of the development of complicated systems in conditions of the use of modern technologies is important not only for specialists involved in the development, selection and implementation of innovations, but also for all segments of the population, as it helps to navigate the predicted new complicated, mobile world.