Digitalization of business, co-operative sector and spatial development management: trends and threats to national security
Today, the Internet as a means of communication and IT technologies penetrate into our lives and work spheres, transforming them. Traditional methods of production of goods and services are crumbling, once popular and fashionable specialties are becoming unnecessary, a person begins to feel his helplessness in a huge flow of information. Increasingly, in everyday and scientific turnover, the question of the combination of artificial and natural intelligence, the prospects for their interaction, begins to be discussed. Smart manufacturing, smart agriculture, smart city, smart contract - these are new technologies that can significantly increase the efficiency of activities by reducing transaction costs and excluding intermediaries from the value chain. The use of IT technologies in the management of spatial development will make the process of state and municipal management more transparent and less resource-intensive. And the use of robotics and the Internet of Things in the agro-industrial complex will bring this field of activity to a qualitatively new level of development, solving the problem of the country's food security. The cooperative sector of the economy cannot fail to take into account global development trends. The use of high technologies in the field of consumer cooperation will allow to revive the former greatness of this institution and preserve social traditional values, which, unfortunately, are erased by the «industrial machine» of the fourth industrial revolution. The purpose of the work is to show promising trends and potential threats to the use of high technologies in various sectors of the economy, including the cooperative sector. The methodological basis of the research was formed by general scientific methods. The result of the work is a number of theoretical and methodological generalizations that make it possible to determine the directions of using IT technologies in the cooperative sector, preserving their basic social values and principles of activity in the new digital society.