ROLE OF INFORMATION IN FUNCTIONING AND DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN SOCIETY

Abstract

The paper reveals the role of information in the process of the development of the society. It is carried out an analysis of the state of the society at the present stage of the scientific and the technological progress and the dangers of the development of existing trends. Different informational streams are revealed, their differences, the different ways of their mastering. The maturation of the conditions for changing the paradigms of the human development that is connected with the need to reorient to new information priorities is substantiated. A tendency is revealed that directs the development of the mankind to the technological singularity, the point of non-return in the human history. Allocated information resources at the disposal of people, which are not accessible to cars and which can become a precaution to the prevent of the dangerous developments for humanity.