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DIGITAL
TRANSFORMATION IN
THE POST-INFORMATION AGE
Edited by
Zlatogor Minchev
Digital Transformation in the Post-Information Age
Copyright © 2022 Institute of ICT, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Copyright © 2022 Softtrade
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of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews.
Editor: Zlatogor Minchev
Content Reviewers: Luben Boyanov & Stiliyan Georgiev
Technical Editor: Stayka Angelova
Language Editors: Temenuga Georgieva & Zornitza Mladenova
Cover Design: Rositsa Petrova
First published: November 2022
Published by Softtrade
ISBN 978-954-334-251-8
Digital Transformation in the Post-Information Age
Preface .............................................................................................................5
Chapter 1: Transformational Transendents in the Post-Information Age –
Zlatogor Minchev ................................................................................7
Chapter 2: “Mann Tracht, un Gott Lacht”: A Socio-Technological Outlook
in a Disruptive Era – Galit Ben-Israel ..............................................32
Security During COVID-19 Pandemic – Max Kilger ...................... 45
Chapter 4: Critical Space Infrastructures – A New Frontier for Security –
Adrian Victor Vevera, Alexandru Georgescu,
Carmen-Elena Cîrnu .........................................................................58
Chapter 5: QUINN – A Personal Assistant with AI
Gabriela Chavgova ................... 82
Chapter 6: Advanced Cyber Risks for Computer Systems
with Future Ransomware Attacks –
Stefan Tafkov & Zlatogor Minchev ................................................. 101
Chapter 7: Trends and Challenges for Tourism Transformation
in the Post-Information Age – Zornitza Mladenova ....................... 116
Commentaries:
of Future People – Mahmoud El-Darawish .................................... 137
of Change Theory – Evgeni Krastev ...............................................146
Digital Transformation
– Velizar Shalamanov ................................151
Epilogue:
Perspectives on the Post-Information Age Transcendents
Future Evolution – Zlatogor Minchev ............................................. 155
Acknowledgements .............................................................................................157
Biographies ......................................................................................................... 158
Preface 5
Preface
Foreseeing the post-information age transformation is extremely important,
especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, giving additional technological
development unprecedented fostering that requires an adequate response. In this
sense, it is necessary to study both – social and technological aspects of future security
sustainable transcendents.
The new, updated edition of the book Digital Transformation in the Post-
Information Age, initially published in 2019 as Future Digital Society Resilience in
the Informational Age is trying to give the reader an extended outlook on the dynamic
and multi-asset future of the post-information metaverse reality, aiming the new
autonomization, smart robots and avatars joining the transformed digital lifestyle,
threats, wars, climate change and resulting social tensions. This in fact, is the main
mission of our expert forum Secure Digital Future 21, established in 2017.
In Chapter 1, a comprehensive generalization of the digital transformation
future problematics is presented by the book editor Zlatogor Minchev, giving an
exploration framework approach from a triplet of analytical, simulated and mixed
perspectives. Galit Ben-Israel is exploring in Chapter 2 the socio-technological
is presented in Chapter 3 by Max Kilger, concerning the terrorism-updated social
to COVID-19, joining cyber and human domains in a new manner with the future
hybrid warfare evolution. Further on, the book looks through some really innovative
technological solutions, showing obvious progress in the pandemic age. In Chapter 4
the new space security communication infrastructure issues and security challenges
are studied from Alexander Victor Vevera, Alexandru Georgescu & Carmen-Elena
Cîrnu, addressing the obvious necessity of these advanced technological assets in the
future modern society. Personal smart assistants for the future are demonstrated in
Chapter 5 by Gabriela Chavgova, giving really an enhanced level of human-machine
interawaring capabilities with multiple regular activities, towards the future digital
society. An extensive view on advanced cyber risks, addressing future ransomware
attacks is studied in Chapter 6 by Stefan Tafkov and Zlatogor Minchev. The new
trends and challenges in tourism transformation with the post-information age are
explored in Chapter 7 by Zornitza Mladenova, presenting the power of digitalization
as a tool for resilience, taking some philosophical aspects of future innovations, an
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in particular the Metaverse concept implementation in the new post-information age.
Additional expert comments on the COVID-19 psychological and mental health
political dynamics and the future expectations on the post-information transcends
with exploration methodology progressive evolution are given by the Commentaries
of Mahmoud El-Darawish, Evgeni Krastev & Velizar Shalamanov.
Finally, in the Epilogue of the book a discussion on some perspectives of the post-
information age transcendents future evolution is given by the editor.
The authors have successfully suggested some solutions for progressive socio-
technological development but their main contribution is the establishment of key
future directions towards the unexplored questions in the new, digitally accelerated
information society of knowledge, able to meet unprecedented pandemic stressors
and continue its evolutionary way.
predictions for the future that will certainly help the modern people successfully
and proactively to handle the present and upcoming security transcendents in the
new post-information age, where knowledge will already be a result of joint human-
machine intelligence symbiosis.
Zlatogor Minchev, Editor
Secure Digital Future 21 President