REMARKS ON THE LATEST EVOLUTION OF NEW INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES GENERATING THE TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION

The ascension of the digital economy has played an important role in the evolution of the informational society and of the knowledge society, revolutionizing, at the sametime, certain aspects of our attitude to economic development, given the fact that digitization promotes in a radical manner new business models via the online platforms. The departure point of this study is the desire to determine the factors favoring the rise of the digital economy in order to identify the founding features and principles of a new economic and social development era. Consequently, this study brings into focus the latest evolutions of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) as main factors involved in what can be called a technological revolution in full bloom, concretized in the development of new technologies, such as: the cloud, big data, mobile apps, geolocation, Internet of Things (IoT), learning machines and mobile robots.