Digital Capital as a Basis for the Development of the Economy in Modern Time and Principles of the Digitalization

The article presents an analysis of economic processes at the present stage. The formation of economic structures has always been conditioned by some significant event, scientific discovery, catalyst of progress. Technological stages, formed since 1970, have already been formed by combining the material and nonmaterial base: the invention of microprocessors and information services; the discovery of graphene and the formation of artificial intelligence, etc. The transition to the digital economy is due to the transition to a new basis digital capital, which combines material and non-material components. The intangible component provides almost limitless opportunities in the formation of the competitiveness of an employee, an organization. However, the gap, the differentiation of countries in the availability of digital capital as a new resource, increases inequality in society. A greater effect and result from the work of digital capital is achieved by increasing accessibility to it; it grows in the interaction of people and in interaction with other forms of capital (human, social, political, communication, intellectual, etc.). Digital capital supposedly possesses a feature that puts the economy itself, with its resource-based nature, into new conditions.