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 ...