The Philosophical Analysis of Information and Digital Technologies as Factors of Transformation of Social Reality

The article contains a philosophical analysis of digital civilization, shows the differences between the information society and the digital society. The historical and philosophical reconstruction of the evolution of ideas about the phenomena “number”, “digit”, in the context of Western and Eastern philosophy is carried out. The characteristics of digital society, digital economy, clip thinking are given and the thesis is substantiated that the influence of digital technology on a person, style of thinking and lifestyle is ambivalent