The author believes that recognition of cognitive functions of social network does not deny the existence of an individual intelligence and does not replace it with a collective one. The article dwells on the definition of intelligence as the ability to be able, which develops throughout the whole life, and it concludes that in the network society development of such capabilities more and more depends on involvement in networking.

The lack of serious work with the identity of national elite and bureaucracy leads to the fact that the identity of bureaucracy is formed not in the Weberian sense, but in today’s Russian or African demonstration – corrupted, infinitely greedy, comprador, unqualified, unpatriotic.