The development of Industry 4.0 in the digital economy of Russia

The article describes the main directions of industry 4.0 and a critical analysis of the threats posed to a new stage of industrialization from the perspective of human exposure. Provides statistics on the share of digital economy in GDP of different countries and the expected market size of the digital economy in comparison with real. According to various studies in the next 10-20 years will cease to exist in about 50% of professions that imposes a series of issues related to developing a system of retraining redundant personnel. Describes the features of transition from one technological system to another and the need to elaborate the standards of this transition on the basis of the mistakes of the past and possibilities of the Internet of things. It is important to understand that the technologies necessary to make life easier for humans, not to replace humans.