Abstract
The main characteristic of information society isn't the tremendous boom of information, but rather the possibility to be in touch here and now with everybody in the world. The development of high tech is the precondition of the modern society. The man is involved into the ecstasy of communication. We all are the inhabitants of a global village. He/she is becoming the terminal of various communication nets. A multiplicity of self-investments is the main existential and practical problem of modern man; the holistic one-directed man is destroyed by high technologies, and modern man is experiencing the feeling of multiphrenia.
The access to information - knowledge - is the question of power. Power and knowledge imply to one another, they are two sides of one coin, although this is hidden by authorities. The authority as power is more directly expressed in simple, black-and-white thinking: God and teacher knows what is correct and incorrect. The influence of external authority is diminishing in more complex, contextual knowledge, and the active role of an individual is increasing in the learning process.