Digital economy: A step into new reality

Abstract

In the modern society, technologies of the digital economy create preconditions for transition to a new form of relations in management of all spheres of activities, transforming the usual processes. The authors perform an overview of the directions of development of the digital society as a new scientific paradigm in economy. The authors determine the problems of transition to the digital reality and provide the strategic target settings of the countries that have experience of such transformation or are interested in acceleration of these processes. Vectors of development of the Russian economy into a new qualitative state are considered.