The book is addressed to a wide range of readers - students and teachers. scientists and just thoughtful people. The problem of living information its influence on the minds of contemporaries and their descendants globalization as a project its various variants: unipolar world multipolar as well as the world as a blossoming diversity of nations mega-cycles in the history of the universe - about all this can be read in an understandable form even without special training. It is enough to have a flexible and inquisitive mind ...