EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes wrote on December 22: “We must invest in the growth sectors of the future now, to fight the crises. The Internet Sector in Europe grows with 12%/year and has the ...
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Living systems according to Parent (1996) are by definition “open self-organizing systems that have the special characteristics of life and interact with their environment. This takes place by means of information and material-energy exchanges. Living systems can be as simple as a single cell or as complex as a supranational organization such as the European Union. Regardless of their complexity, they each depend upon the same essential twenty subsystems (or processes) in order to survive and to continue the propagation of their species or types beyond a single generation”.[4]
Miller said that systems exist at 8 “nested” hierarchical levels: cell, organ, organism, group, organization, community, society, and supranational system. In more detail:
{{The eight levels of living systems are: cells: a basic building block of life organs: the principle components are cells, organized in simple, multi-cellular systems. organisms: there are three kinds of organisms: fungi, plants and animals. Each has distinctive cells, tissues and body plans and carries out life processes differently. groups: these contain two or more organisms and their relationships. organizations: these involve one of more groups with their own control systems for doing work. communities: they include both individual persons and groups, as well as groups which are formed and are responsible for governing or providing services to them. societies: these are loose associations of communities, with systematic relationships between and among them. supranational systems: organizations of societies with a supraordinate system of influence and control}}
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Le philosophe et académicien Michel Serres explique pourquoi le nouvel espace digital qui a remplacé l'espace métrique est une révolution pour les esprits et... Via Pierre Levy Delete the scoop?
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Philosophe et historien des sciences, Michel Serres réclame l’indulgence pour les jeunes, obligés de tout réinventer dans une société bouleversée par les nouvelles technologies. Via Pierre Levy
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Vous annoncez qu’un «nouvel humain» est né. Qui est-il ?
Je le baptise Petite Poucette, pour sa capacité à envoyer des SMS avec son pouce. C’est l’écolier, l’étudiante d’aujourd’hui, qui vivent un tsunami tant le monde change autour d’eux. Nous connaissons actuellement une période d’immense basculement, comparable à la fin de l’Empire romain ou de la Renaissance.
Nos sociétés occidentales ont déjà vécu deux grandes révolutions : le passage de l’oral à l’écrit, puis de l’écrit à l’imprimé. La troisième est le passage de l’imprimé aux nouvelles technologies, tout aussi majeure. Chacune de ces révolutions s’est accompagnée de mutations politiques et sociales : lors du passage de l’oral à l’écrit s’est inventée la pédagogie, par exemple. Ce sont des périodes de crise aussi, comme celle que nous vivons aujourd’hui. La finance, la politique, l’école, l’Eglise… Citez-moi un domaine qui ne soit pas en crise ! Il n’y en a pas. Et tout repose sur la tête de Petite Poucette, car les institutions, complètement dépassées, ne suivent plus. Elle doit s’adapter à toute allure, beaucoup plus vite que ses parents et ses grands-parents. C’est une métamorphose ! Delete the scoop?
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Problem however is that not many people have a clue what Internet is or if they do think about different things, like the World Wide Web of Apps & Cloud services. And they have a wide variety of views how “Internet” should be governed. Recently at the ITU world conference on international telecommunications (WCIT-12) in Dubai these different views came to a conflict where a number of member countries refused to sign the treaty. On the one side nation states expressed their sovereign right to regulate ( and if necessary block) internal and external Internet traffic; and on the other side countries who express the view that the Internet is by design is a transnational structure with a “multi-stakeholder” organisation to run it and further develop it. I subscribe to this latter view and will explain in this blog why and how this can and will be done.