Open AccessThe Multifaceted Challenges of the Digital Transformation: Creating a Sustainable Society
Author(s) -
Gheorghe Nadoleanu,
Ana Rodica Stãiculescu,
Emanuela Bran
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
postmodern openings
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2069-9387
pISSN - 2068-0236
DOI - 10.18662/po/13.1sup1/428
Subject(s) - digital transformation , sociology , context (archaeology) , digital society , phenomenon , contemporary society , representation (politics) , knowledge management , epistemology , order (exchange) , scale (ratio) , engineering ethics , public relations , environmental ethics , political science , business , social science , computer science , engineering , media studies , politics , world wide web , paleontology , philosophy , physics , finance , quantum mechanics , law , biology
Technology and society are deeply interconnected, as technology emerges from the existent cultural framework and consequently shapes society on the micro level of human interaction and the larger scale of social structure and system. This paper tackles the digital transformation present in Industry 4.0 and Society 5.0. We analyse disruptive digital technologies by focusing on the social or cultural context of their creation, their core philosophy, and the impact they seem to have or how society may be shaped by their extended implementation and adoption. As technology is basically not neutral in its purpose, serving different personal and organizational interests, we use a multiple point-of-view approach to our study in order to elaborate an encompassing representation of the phenomenon.