MECHATRONICS - TECHNOLOGY COMPATIBLE WITH THE INFORMATION SOCIETY.

We are witnessing the dawn of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, generically called Industry 4.0. The paradox of progress - it's something completely unexpected: we get more and more from less, a phenomenon called dematerialization. One of the important achievements of this phenomenon are the mechatronic products, designed as systems not components. Mechatronic technology brings to the center of attention the problem of information, which is the dominant component in relation to the other components (material and energy). Arguments: information ensures the satisfaction of man's spiritual needs; only information increases the newly added value of all things; information is culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]