Not so long ago, advanced countries (Europe, the United States of America, Canada) entered the era of post-industrialism. Information has become the most valuable resource. Gradually, knowledge begins to prevail in value over capital in the rest of the world as well. This process is noticeable literally in every area. You can sell a machine for several thousand dollars, and know-how for a billion. Developed countries have long moved all tangible assets abroad, leaving behind only research centers, universities and laboratories. This suggests that human information activity has become more highly valued, and people are ready to invest in it.
Why are bachelors of elite universities who have received a quality education promised dollar salaries with four zeros, and a graduate of a Russian professional college is unlikely to reach forty thousand rubles a month? This can be explained simply: in each case, the employer assessed the information activity of these two places of study differently. It is the quality and availability of knowledge that isdefining factors in modern education.
Information human activity is a rather broad concept: it includes the processes of transferring, receiving, storing, accumulating and transforming knowledge and data. This is a complex multi-stage ordered process. But, despite the various types of human information activity, in a global sense it comes down to one thing - progress through the use of accumulated knowledge.
An acute problem was the safety of information. Manuscripts and cuneiform copies did not differ in durability. They were often irretrievably lost during great moves, wars, revolutions, or changes in ruling dynasties. Due to such failures in the transfer of accumulated knowledge to generations, the development of the nation slowed down. The importance of transferring experience and skills was thought about several centuries ago. The professional information activity of a person was then entrusted to the shoulders of priests, chroniclers, oracles and druids. However, it was not very effective: there were very few sources, and only a select few had access to the data imprinted in them.
Over time, the methods changed, became more convenient: private libraries were created, archives with various types of systematizations. The professions of librarian and archivist appeared.
As the years passed, and the volume of waste paper grew steadily, it became more and more difficult to catalog, the staff expanded. Some statistics: until the beginning of the nineteenth century, the average amount of human knowledge doubledat fifty; already from its middle, five were enough for this. Currently, this period has been further reduced. In this form, the information movement existed until mass computerization. The computer "ENIAC" in 1946 from the USA became the pioneer. In the USSR, the era of computerization came in 1951 through the efforts of academician Lebedev.
Now it is difficult to imagine a specialist who would not have a computer, tablet or laptop on his desk. Human information activity with the development of the nano-technologies segment has made a huge leap in recent years. It is difficult to find an industry that does not use computer databases and does not serve the benefit of mankind.
