The article gives a brief description of the new conditions of human life in the world, characterized by the search for optimal and effective resources for sustainable development. The relevance of the topic is due to new require-ments for society and for a person. New conditions create new problems in solving the problems of training specialists who are able to work productively in a digital society. The purpose of the study was to identify the degree of readiness of young people of the "digital generation" to adapt to the new educational environment, the perception of new formats for the digital transformation of the education system. The analysis of the results of this study can contribute to the development of new didactic principles in the field of the use of digital technologies. One of the ways to overcome the conflict in the implementation of new ideas for the sustainable development of the economy, society and the professional training system is the development of a new scientific direction - digital didactics. This direction provides tools that explain the specifics of such components as: construc-tivism, operationalism, technicalism, pragmatism, reductionism, utilitarianism. Using the method of large-scale monitoring and analysis of respondents' answers, we found out that today the "digital generation" is more ready for digital transformation than the carriers of professional and academic knowledge. Over-coming intergenerational contradictions is becoming one of the main problems of modern society and the education system.