history has shown that the future belongs to technological powers. From the chariots of the Hyksos, which shattered the armies of the Pharaohs of the fifteenth dynasty, to the nuclear bombings, which put an end to all Japanese resistance in World War II, the difference between victory and annihilation was made by technology. Technology created by educated human minds, curious, eager to overcome the knowledge of their own times. This is still the case today, in the era of the conquest of outer space and of the artificial intelligence, when the education system represents both the training framework and the vanguard of future transformations. Viewed with skepticism at the beginning of its implementation, e-learning has demonstrated its viability during the SARS-COV II pandemic, when it successfully replaced the traditional classroom teaching system. But today, e-learning knows the most diverse development directions, from microlearning and gamification to adaptive learning and augmented & virtual reality. And not only that. The unprecedented development of the e-learning industry is well known. Industry controlled by companies belonging to the great technological powers. Therefore, we wonder why the most technologically advanced countries are at the forefront of the e-learning industry? Is digital education the educational tool of the great technological powers? Same powers that will shape the world of the future. Or it will remain just a replacement for the classical educational system. This article aims to analyze the development directions of digital education, the dynamics of the related industrial sector and the relationship between digital education and technological power in the context of the international game.

-learning, gamification, microlearning, artificial intelligence, mind uploading, transhumanism