Abstract

The article draws on a multi-level conception of the Information Society. We have attempted to identify the historically important stages of society development depending on a form of information representation. The current social organization is going through transformation from information-based society to a knowledge-based one. Overcoming the cognitive gap through a deep reformation of the global education system is a necessary prerequisite for change. The proposed conception is based on the Trinitarian post-non-classical methodology and information model of Universum – info-world comprised of information objects. The importance of this model consists in “putting together” three different groups of notions – knowledge, meanings, ideas, values ; information, content, data ; facts and information.All these notions are the means of representing information which is regarded as an ideal object. Further, singling out the levels of the Information society makes it possible not only to analyze its stages from a historical angle, but also to reveal the major tendencies, principles and characteristic features. All these elements would thus result in a scientifically solid theory and methods for research and building prognostication models.