Informatika i tehnologija
Information and Technology

Summary/Abstract: The author analyzes the interdependence of the new electronic communication technology and its information science, on the one hand, and the organisation of production, education, and of the socio-political and other spheres of work and life. The new technology makes possible an accelerated development of all spheres and the advancement of social communication, provided, though, that the problems of both the hardware and the software are equally well controlled. One-sided control, only over the hardware aspect of the new technology lends to the so-called intellectual colonialism. The new technology will transform the structure and function of education; educational communication by means of the new media will realize the age-old idea of individual instruction, of small classes and individual study at home. The former instructive function of teachers will give place to organizers, co-ordinators and regulators of the educational process. Automation will increasingly predominate in production. The robotisation of a part of the Japanese automobile industry offers an insight into the tendencies of the process of intellectualisation and automation of productive work. In the sphere of political life as well, fundamental changes arc expected, that is, the abandonment of the old dualistic and class model of communication through the dissemination of information from the minority to the majority and Its substitution by the model of inductive generalisation of information, in which all citizens are subjects rather than objects of information.

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