A new book “Window to the Future” by Leonid Melnyk, Doctor of Economics, Professor of Dept. of Economics, Entrepreneurship and Business Administration in Sumy State University, Director of the Institute of Development Economics of the Ministry of Education & Science and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine was published.
Someone have already called it a children’s monograph. The “monograph” – because it presents a completely scientific picture of reality, in which humanity will have to live in the near future. And it is “children’s” because it is actually a book of fairy tales.
Different characters live in fairy tales from the book: cheerful and mischievous, funny and clever. However, the main ones who act as fairy-tale characters are the phenomena of the future, which each of us will have to get acquainted with in the near future. These are the Internet of Things, the Cloud and its creations, Virtual Reality, Memory, Artificial Intelligence, Cyborgs, 3D printers and others. All of them are the product of the industrial revolutions that society is now part of.
Despite the light, sometimes even playful style of fairy tales, they actually encrypt quite serious things. It is no coincidence that recently a team of teachers led by prof. L. Melnyk, won an extremely prestigious EU research grant Jean Monnet “EU legislative, economic and social transition to sustainable society” (619997-EPP-1-2020-1-UA-EPPJMO-CHAIR). The subject of his research is very close to what is discussed in the book “Window to the Future”. It is the transition to a new society through the Fourth and Fifth Industrial Revolutions.
It should be noted that this is Jean Monnet’s second EU grant won by a scientist. The result of the first one includes: the monograph “Birth of sustainable economy: the experience of the EU and the practice of Ukraine in the light of III and IV industrial revolutions”; the textbook “Green economy: the experience of the EU and the practice of the Ukraine”; the introduction of university discipline “Development Economics”; a popular book “Philosophical Tales about Development: complex things in simple way.” The last book was awarded with the special recognition of the State Fund for Fundamental Research in the competition of popular scientific publications.
We look forward to see new victories for the professor and scientists working with him.
Support for the publication of this book was provided by the “Technology” group of companies and its head Volodymyr Zayets.
Yuriy Derevyanko,
Ph.D., Associate Professor