Humanity can’t live without information because it is the source of not only the elementary knowledge but also social status, profits, and certain advantages. Information is the modern instruments of the life you want to get.
Information’s role is very important nowadays no doubt. Information is available everywhere that was favourable for the development of new psychological addiction that is information addiction.
Turn around and you’ll find yourself covered with information that doesn’t allow breathing. But no, breathing is information and nothing more.
Information is the unique form of manipulation as with its help it is possible to make people believe in everything you want and to make people do everything you want.
It is always necessary to tell useful and true information from the waste with which libraries and Mass Media are filled not to mention internet.
Information is always the base of any science because it makes its essence, its structure, its methods, etc. There is no science without information. But sciences usually use this term and change information without considering it as philosophical and scientific category.
Probably only philosophy considers information as it is and other scientific works use it, look for the methods of its getting, the methods of its keeping, working up, interpretation according to the specialization of the discipline but these sciences don't consider the essence of information.
Despite the insufficient knowledge of people in the signification of the word "information", information itself is the only way of the human communication and contact between people and the world. During all moments when we get to know something, we are talking about information. And cognition itself is possible only thanks to the possibility of people to define the necessary information from the world and the capability of the world to be the transmitter of information.
Some information services say that information is the universal quality of the matter that is the spread of the objects essence in space and time through the objectively existing data mediums of different nature. But if you ask the ordinary person what information is he/she will probably say that it is data about somebody or something sent with the help of different methods from the world and other people.