Od informatičkog ka konceptualnom društvu
From Informatics to Conceptual Society

Summary/Abstract: We are living in times of transformation of the industrial into an information society being a society in which the informational activities are the most present and dominate over the agricultural, industrial and other activities. The processing of information, as a central, most important activity of men, is the key to understanding the notion of the information society. The genesis of the information society is in progress and will, probably, last a few decades, in contrast to the industrial society which took centuries to set up. The spreading of informational activities is and will be in three basic directions: through mostly informational economic activities, through embedding informational activities in traditional industrial, agricultural and service activities, and with the growing use of information technologies in different aspects of social communication. Between the years 1996 and 2001 there has been an upswing in spreading informational activities around the world and one of the most known and striking phenomenons was on the US stock exchange through founding and trading with the stock of the so called “dot.com” companies. Everything related to the “dot.com” companies points that it was the elective way to finance the development and application of new information technologies in the economy of the USA before all. The information society is emerging and it is not certain how it will develop and how long it will last and certain authors are already considering the period after the information era and predicting the ensuing of a conceptual era during which men will occupy themselves with creative, artistic jobs and will pay much more attention to design, stories, symphonies, empathy, playing and thinking. Having in mind the exponential growth rates of knowledge, registered at the end of the 20th century, as well as the possibility that the application of the new information technologies enhances significantly the productivity in both the realms of production of food and of material goods, maybe the “conceptual” era is not so distant in the future.

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