Abstract
The article considers the context of prof. N.V. Tikhomirov as the transition of the information society to a qualitatively new round of development. Smart-societies can be defined as a new quality of society, in which the combination of the use of technical means, services and the Internet by trained people leads to qualitative changes in the interaction of subjects, allowing them to receive new effects - social, economic and other benefits for a better life. This is the next stage of development for the so-called. "information society" in which we live today.