Modern Challenges of the Knowledge Digitalization: Lessons of the Past and Ambiguity Future

Abstract

The article is devoted to a comprehensive study of the phenomenon of digitalization of socioeconomic relations, the analysis of key areas and concepts of the economy model development, which is grounded on the knowledge transfer. The results of the interdisciplinary analysis of the influence of cognitive, agrarian and scientific revolutions on the evolutionary trajectories of humanity are presented. The hypothesis about the absence of a clear correlation between the Global Innovation Index, the Global Competitiveness Index, and the Doing Business Index has been put forward and confirmed. On the basis of the obtained results, the article put forward the author's assumption about the ambiguity of the consequences of the rapid penetration of IT-technologies into all sectors of the economy and the common life of human civilization.