Designing a Society on Near and Distant Future
The article analyzes the results of the thirteen-year implementation of the recommendations of the UNESCO Science and Forecast Project «Towards Knowledge Societies». The evaluation of the results of the implementation of new technologies in the reform of education and the system of the functioning of science, the degree of novelty of the proposed methods is given. In the material, signs of the utopian nature of the proposed project are fixed, in connection with the incompleteness of the functions characteristic of the social forecast.