Informative control: premises, techniques and tools

In the broad sense, informative control is mechanism where the control actions are of implicit, indirect nature and the information provided to the control object looks like an informative picture used by the object to work out an allegedly autonomous line of behavior. Informative control exists for a long time, but until recently it remained ancillary and insignificant as compared with other control techniques. In the second half of the XX century, the role of informative control began its dramatic growth. Against this background, the paper discusses the causes of this phenomenon.