The essay concerns "the knowledge society", IT and the possibilities of school being changed to meet the future. The purpose was to reflect the ideas of researchers and authorities concerning work and education in "the knowledge society" and to illuminate/shed light on the importance of information technology in this connection, to map organizational and pedagogical shortcomings in the current school system and the changes that can be needed, and to investigate how these changes can affect teachers, pupils and librarians. The investigation, which was a text analysis of normative and futurist sources, was especially directed towards how modem information technology can influence education/teaching. The differences between researchers and authorities were most obvious in the view of the importance of knowledge of facts and central control mechanisms for standards or grading. For the authorities, who were devoid of a thought out/carefully prepared and consequent view of knowledge and by that also of pedagogics, the information technique was the foremost cause of a change in pedagogy. The researchers also perceived the possibilities of IT, but emphasized the importance of pedagogical innovations irrespective of the technology