ABSTRACT
The progress of our civilisation is mostly driven by the changes in science. First, in the era of agrarian societies, the progress was driven by the advances in agriculture. Next, in the industrial societies, the progress was a result of improvements in manufacturing. Today, we are living in the postindustrial societies and their evolution results mostly from the advances in information and knowledge processing. For this reason, our times are often called the era of Information Technology Revolution, as a way of describing the complex synergistic process of changes occurring in the society and within engineering. These changes are driven by new sciences, technologies and tools, all related to information and knowledge processing.
