Abstract
In the present research study, the author states that due to the achievements of technological progress in the nearest 50 years the mankind will enter a new stage of the civilization development – digital society.
Some discoveries that lead to sharp acceleration of the scientific-technological progress have already been made in the world. Digital revolution could not only save the mankind from hunger, diseases, poverty, and criminality but also provide the freedom of communication and movement, new available sources of energy, new types of enjoyment and new level of comfort. Digital era will release the mankind of the necessity to follow primitive instincts. The humans will have nothing to be afraid of and nothing to desire.
The author considers that we can make a giant stride in our development that will lead to the era of creativity, talented people and the golden age of the civilization. But there is also another possibility. The mankind can lose the «fight for future» to the reactionary forces, which already fight for the global resources, and come to digital totalitarianism when the society is under strict control of the governing class.