Abstracts:

Postindustrial Society:

1. Industry of entertainments,

2. Struggle for the consumer (spectator),

3. Competition and advertising,

4. Democratic culture.



Scientific and Technical Progress:

1. Information-communication technologies,

2. General computerization,

3. Three-dimensional technologies,

4. Electronic museums and exhibitions,

5. Expansion of Internet.



Museum in Democratic Culture:

1. Classical and Democratic Culture,

2. Absence of roots in mass culture,

3. Digital Technics and precomputer’s Era.



Prospects:

1. Business,

2. Advanced scientific and technical branches,

3. Complex Information approaches,

4. Artificial intelligence and automatic devices.



Advertising - engine of progress:

1. The electronic images - real works of art,

2. The scale projects instead of duplication,

3. Integration in mass culture (Metadata: CRM - CIDOC).



Asymmetry of Cultural and Technical Progress:

1. Information media and art culture,

2. Classical culture in a democratic society,

3. Virtual and real museums (complementariness principle),

4. The new art approaches.