“…Traditionally, when discussing economic development, the authors focused on the quantitative, and to some extent, qualitative improvement in the usage of available resources, following the Kusnetzian, structuralist line of thought (Pearson, 2000). However, since the proposal of HDI (UNDP, 1990), the term started to encompass a wider variety of social issues, as can be seen for instance, in the Balanced Development Index proposed by Koźmiński et al (2020). Nevertheless, despite the undeniably profound impact that globalisation has on the life of societies, in the light of the considerations in this paper, it initially concerns mainly the economic and technological spheres, which are fuelled by technological progress.…”