Informatization and society:possible difficulties and future prospects

Abstract

The development of the information society determines the increasing importance of information in human transformative activity, the approximation of its production directly to production activity, the improvement of the social structure of society, based on the current conditions of its existence and the development of intensive forms of information exchanges in society. All these significant changes in the information sphere have caused the growing pace of new information production, the increase in the amount of information circulating in social information networks, and therefore the ever-increasing information load on human consciousness that has never been seen before. These realities are based on the need to implement the fundamental principles of this society: improving productivity in the information field, improving the efficiency of use of information resources. In this context, it should be pointed out that the problems faced by modern civilization require to increase efficiency of cognitive activity of society, of the creative activity of an increasing number of its representatives. Accordingly, the cognitive process requires an ever-increasing resource for the information needed to increase the efficiency of using publicly available information.

Keywords

• informatization, information society, library institutions, electronic information resources, information production, personality of the information society.