The main aim of this paper is to highlight the complexity of the digital transformation of education. The paper focuses on the analysis of the fundamental aspects of the digital transformation of education, and an understanding of the consequences it entails. The paper presents characteristics of digital technology and artificial intelligence (AI) as the two main drivers behind a new digital culture of living. It also points to the history of sociotechnological changes that have required transformations in the organizational methods of production and consumption of society, which contributed to transformations of educational practices. The lens through which these processes are analysed are techno-utopianism and techno-dystopianism. While in the digital society technology is promoted as a means of enhancing equality, the thesis presents technology as a source of new social and educational inequalities and exploitation. The thesis present the work of authors for whom under the leadership of transnational global digital democracy and politics, education as a key sector of society is increasingly subject to the realization of digital-market goals of numerous companies and governments, whereby digital and UI technologies are redefining the entire educational context. The changed purpose of today`s education is presented in the form of transformations in the learning and teaching process, the role of educational workers, as well as the role of new digital tools in the educational process. The paper also emphasizes the consequences of digital technology on the health of students, as well as points out the digital logic of the market, which changes the relationship between ethics and ideology in the context of the digital transformation of education.