Information revolution: socioanthropological and worldview transformations

Abstract

It is shown that the critical factor in the modern reality is not only the emergence of a new information and communication field, radically transforming the usual infrastructure of social life, but also the explosive growth of the speed of change caused by the rapid development of digital technology. Attention is drawn to the qualitative leap in the speed of development, which refers to the transition to a reality where radical changes in technological infrastructure and the resulting changes in the life of society began to occur repeatedly in the course of a single human life, in real time. It is argued that as a result of the information revolution a new order of uncertainty has arisen, which requires a new way of thinking on the part of man. The problem of minimally correct forecasting in the main spheres of social being is analyzed.