GENERAL THEORY OF GLOBALIZATION

From 1990 till 1993 – expert of the B. Eltsyn Group of Experts, since 1994 – leading analyst of the President of Russia Analytic Department, since 1996 – referent of the President of Russia assistant. Since March 1997 – advisor of the vice-prime-minister – Minister of Internals, since June 1997 – advisor of the first vice-prime-minister Mr. B. Nemtsov. On his leaving the government one day prior to August 17th, he established a Globalization Problem Institute. In the beginning of October 1998 after new government under Mr. Primakov had started its work, he was restored at the public service.

He has more than 300 publications (including in the USA, Germany, France, China, India, Egypt etc.), 4 monographs, with the latest - «Economy of non-payments» was republished for three times since 1996 till 1997.

RESUME

1.Information technologies development has brought to:

•«meta-technologies» creation, application of which makes it impossible for the party which applies such technologies to compete with the developers of these technologies;

•reorientation of technologies from necessary material objects formation to necessary type of conscious and culture formation (transformation from high-tech to high-hume);

•acceleration of information technologies development to such extent that «short», theoretical investments are productive for the most advanced information technologies;

•approximate depreciation of traditional technologies;

•Information society creation in which money plays second role as compared with technologies.

2.Major humanity technological development prospects:

•Exacerbation and compelling character acquisition by divultion between developed and backward countries, and also between developed countries and creating new technologies and the rest developed countries;

•Insulation of people engaged in information technologies into internal «information community», its concentration in the territory of the developed countries; slow concentration of the «information community» of the world and together with it concentration of the world progress in the «most developed» countries;

•progress termination beyond the developed countries; social and financial degradation of the developing countries;

•Possible abrupt slowdown of the progress in the result of global financial crises and destructive competition between the USA and European Currency Union.

3.Global monopolies formation is being performed:

•At global markets of separate financial instruments;

•In the course of these markets integration process (reduction of the «transformation value» among them to negligible level) as information technologies advance – in the form of the united global monopoly.

These processes will demand in the nearest future creation of the overnational regulation mechanism for global monopolies, which will be of more malaise character.

The whole development of the humanity including in the field of economics is determined nowadays and will be determined in the nearest decade by progress to the new qualitative level with two fundamental processes simultaneously: new technologies development, information technologies primarily, and based on it quick competition globalization, primarily in the financial markets.

!lvl0I.INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES EXPANSION

1.1.Information technologies: money recedes into the background

Technological development has brought in the middle nineties to actual creation by the most advanced part of the humanity that very «information community» which has been widely discussed for the last decades and so that no one takes the matter seriously.

Realities of its functioning, casual connections and competitive potential by the reason of intellectual and technological gap can be hardly perceivable by those who are beyond of that process.The most important way of showing this qualitative technological breakthrough which has lead to creation of the information society and at the same time one of its major parts is creation and quick distribution of the so-called «meta-technologies».