Knowledge society: project, forecast and reality.

The forthcoming formation of the knowledge society in the near future was confidently predicted in the middle of the twentieth century. Many social researchers, and after them the general public, accept the accomplished realization of this forecast as an obvious reality. There are some reasons for this. This mode was really meant to be implemented to overcome the problem of the limits of industrial growth. But in practice, the results have not been so impressive so far. And today, even the most developed countries do not look like the embodiment of the model of the knowledge society.