Being Digital
Part 4 — Revolution and Democracy
In, Nicholas Negroponte’s, “Being Digital” one can read that being digital is more prevalent in repurposing our uses of technology and tools than ever before. An overall transference of a material state to a state of unmeasurable information, or bits can be observed in this reading.
We have more at our disposal now, than two seconds ago. So, where do people go from here?
In what direction are national governments to go from here? The moral compass is leading the discussion now, and it is directly from the users and not from the top-down. Mark Zuckerberg listened to the people, the users of Facebook, and acted in our interests to limit exposure to “fake news” because we want the truth, and we now have the scary ability to see beyond the confounds of television programming.
We can choose the content and that is because we can choose the container to access it by. Zuckerberg’s move is an idea of what the future is to be, for the people, or maybe not.
How can we continue to operate on the sets of rules and laws that apply to material information and property? Since we can not control and limit control without completely wiping out all knowledge of the internet, our best bet would had be to promote more cultural and being human practices with a minimalistic approach.
What to expect?
A read or watch into some of Noam Chomsky’s work could illuminate some of these concepts for us. Two common trends in so-called democratic states, 1. democracy near-fully in a welfare state, because if all had an equal voice there would be no hungry or poor, and 2. reduce democracy — give the people less of a voice and take control of the containers for texts.
Revolution in how we operate as a society is to come, but how it will unfold is only to be seen in the future. Bits are changing everything.
