I would like to thank Mr lzvorski for his article, ‘The information society: the Bulgarian logic ‘,’ in response to my article.2 The changes in the former communist countries have directed a real challenge to the social sciences. Nobody was able to foresee precisely the time of their occurrence and the dramatic speed of the development of events. Will social researchers today manage to define the key factors of the change and outline the priorities in post-communist development? The great flow of publications on these issues can be classified into three main groups. The first examines them in their politicological aspect and analyses the setting up of institutions of democratic representation, the forming of civil society, the structure and dynamics of the new elites etc. The second group of studies turn their attention to the transition to the market economy, the restructuring of property through privatization and restitution. The comparative analysis of Central and Eastern Europe with South Europe and Latin America is the focus of a third group of publications. In my article, I sought to analyse post-communist development in the theoretical perspective of the information society. Izvorski’s article ‘Information society: the Bulgarian logic’ confirms the relevance of this approach. The decision to publish both texts in Futures achieves an essentially positive effect: it shows how to interpret one and the same problem from the research positions of both a social philosopher and an economist. lzvorski argues that the information revolution in Bulgaria ‘is the outcome of the increased need of the central planner to process and store information about the state of the economy in order to ensure absolute compliance with the state plans for economic and social development’. This was precisely the argument