Semenov E.V. With Archaic Science to the Information Society. Information Society, 2009, No. 2, pp. 40-52.

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Abstract

Information society is the new phase of civilization development in which information is the major product. Modern Russia has inherited from the USSR both actual and intellectual backwardness as compared to the countries with developed information sciences. In the most developed countries simultaneously with the society transition to a new condition the sphere of research and development changed, as well as the education and innovation systems. The status of the Russian science and the processes occurring in it can be most precisely expressed by two words: archaism and progressing degradation. Archaism of the institutional organization of the modern Russian science is connected to the fact that it has developed in the conditions of non-market, non-competitive, exclusive and administrative environment - contradicting that in which innovations actively develop. One of the most important problems is not just reduction of the number of people employment in the science sphere, but reduction of the number of researchers. The Russian science has the disciplinary structure unusual for beginning of XXI century, more characteristic of an industrial society, - the balance of scientific disciplines with absolute prevalence of engineering sciences, with undeveloped segments of medical, biologic, social and human sciences, with the weakened information segment. Science crisis in Russia is not the consequence of its underfinancing. It is the crisis of its socially significant functions, institutions and basic values.