Light and shadows of digital reality: artificial and natural (editorial)

It is highly important to provide reflections on the digitalization process, its achievements and challenges from the perspective of the humanities within a broad interdisciplinary discussion. An example of such a discussion was the II All-Russian Scientific Conference with international participation ‘Light and Shadows of Digital Reality: the Artificial and the Natural’. The note analyzes the main content of the papers included in this thematic issue and prepared by the Conference participants or presented by the authors independently. A plan is presented for a conference to be regularly held as a successor of the Conference ‘Light and Shadows of Digital Reality’ (Perm State University, 2023-2024) and the Conference ‘Image of the Engineer in the 21st Century’ (Perm National Research Polytechnic University, 2014-2019).