Information Society Visions: from the early utopies to the adequate government-level strategic planning methods

Information society: what does it mean today? We need some meaningarcheological considerations to jump from the early information society definitions to the nowadays information strategies. "Information strategy" (or "Information Society Development Program" or simply "IT-policy") as an emerging entity of Government-level strategic planning combines and integrates the former sectoral policies a library-based information policy, the information technology industry development, the cultural, educational and scientific policies etc. The "Vision" character as a focus-point of the planning method was born in the late 70's in biggest (multinational) companies, as a new alignment with the latest generation of strategic information systems. The political sphere has adapted this solution from the management science, and have built into his planning methodology.