Knowledge age
Introduction
The Knowledge Age is foreseen to evolve after an uprising due to the socioeconomic harms caused by bad actors exploiting the natural world and all living beings subjected to the acts of non-living legal persons run by humans and increasingly also AI for greed in the information age. The centralisation to a level of despotism that irrecoverably undermined any capacity to sustainably develop the 4th industrial revolution due to global economic foundations built upon fake news by oligarchy used to harm the planet and the vast majority of life on it. The Knowledge Age emerges as Decentralised Information Systems reunites the personhood of natural persons with an ability for them to build trusted informatics peers in an infosphere of inforgs through the use of machine and human-readable data structures producing what is considered to be a "human-centric" web or info-sphere. Amongst the many very significant changes, it is expected that work conditions for knowledge workers will improve radically.
Distinction to the Information Age
The Information Age rapidly brought about the means for information to be stored in electronic formats in a globally networked environment. These systems did not, however, retain the means to ensure natural persons retained beneficial rights and/or interests over the data produced, stored and employed by legal personalities in relation to them. The information age in turn presented to the world in a commonly understood manner, the distinction between information (that may be false, such as fake news) and knowledge, as is the underlying ingredient required for any pursuit in any field of STEM by natural agents working on STEAM.
Since the start of the development of the world-wide-web project, as was brought about by Tim Berners-Lee through his works in cern, an emergent 'interference pattern' has enveloped the world, leading to international discourse in the United States about the concept of an information fiduciary whilst others grapple with the consequential inter-agent relations as our most instrumental international agreements such as those forged by way of the United Nations including but not limited to the UDHR and the Convention of the Rights of the Child to be knowingly breached, whilst our means of employing this infrastructure provides few options to do much about it at all. Whilst this is one of many pressing examples, the question of universal grammar of morality
Hume wrote about this; he put it in different terms than we would use. Humans have the capacity to make moral judgements in new situations, in ways that conform to the understanding of others. (And he says) The only way this is possible is if there are principles that are part of our nature… he says, these are different to the instincts that are shared with other animals. So we have some form of instincts that are an original part of our nature and these somehow yield judgements that are comprehensible to others, and often accepted by others…. and if we reach different judgements, we don't just need to throw stones at each other; we can have a kind of moral discourse about it, try to find common ground and see where we can go from there… these are just human capacities…[1]
Therein, the concept of Web Science develops upon a primitive basis of consideration that as a species we innately have some sense of 'moral grammar' and now therefore, given this innately exists in the natural world in relation to our status of consciousness as natural persons, the issues of how our information systems fail to provide appropriate accommodations as to render reliable knowledge frameworks is a problem considered, at this stage, to be in the realm of philosophical engineering rather than an underlying STEM challenge requiring radical new technology. Therein, the underlying concept of binding information science with philosophical engineering as to produce a capacity for humans to work cooperatively in this emergent field of web science was depicted by a map image produced by Tim Berners-Lee in 2007.[2]
Tim Berners-Lee and an array of others in the world have been cooperatively collaborating on an informatics tooling framework built upon the concept of a semantic web for many years and is interoperable with the broader liberal arts education related fields of expertise, which when applied to the manufacture of code that is consumable by software agents, introducing a new class of actor referred to as a social machine where the intentional design frameworks employed using Web Science, may debate what is considered to be in the interests of engineering knowledge-based systems as distinct to alternative corpus modalities.
OBJECTIVE: Building the Reality-Machine
Over known history, the ability to make distinct information which is in fact false, faceted or subject to an interpretable or nuanced interference pattern, whether that be in relation to the status of the observer or any other reasons, has been subjected to ever-decreasing challenges.
In the 20th century, our means to use Western methods to communicate developed exponentially. In the 21st century, the leaders of the world in industry and elsewhere started to make intentional choices to spread fake news or false representations designed to engender others to act on a basis of this false information for some intended or unintended purpose. Whilst these forms of behaviour are ancient in its heritage, the simultaneous undertaking made was to form a global graph of pervasive surveillance that could be consumed by vast energy-consuming capabilities owned and operated by various persona ficta world-wide in pursuit of economic gains. These technologically cyber production activities brought with it the means to link every computer in the world together to have them act using software in a programmatically defined framework to deliver outcomes, such as the facilitation of means to consume us by way of an attention economy selling advertising and the data produced by us. The problem brought about is that whilst our ICT systems are now capable of networking enormous amounts of information sourced from across the world, as is used in web search engine solutions such as Google to present information sourced world-wide in seconds, these systems suffer from a widespread inability to deliver reliable knowledge about important issues affecting humanity.
The objective of the Knowledge Age is now therefore, to build a 'reality machine' that employs the same ICT infrastructure already in place to deliver knowledge resources that are consistent with reality rather than the alternatives provided on a widespread basis for economic gains in the early 21st century.
Techno Social Background
Whilst the manifest reality of how the knowledge age comes about is yet to come of age, yet some insights can be engendered by studying the heritage of information technology and some of the key events considered to bring about the destabilising forces that are expected to result in the billions of Homo sapiens (Latin: "wise man") collectively migrating to employ 'knowledge economy' ICT tools that incorporate attitudes of furnishing value to the natural actor in a manner distinct to alternatives. This distinction between systems that furnish knowledge-based equity[3] exclusively to legal personalities; and more particularly also, to foreign jurisdictions to the habitat of the natural actor as does engender a status of legal alien in relation to the data subject; vs, those that produce, support and render nuanced informatics schemes considered to supply 'human-centric' informatics systems with or without supplementally beneficial 'knowledge banking' ICT infrastructure are amongst the critically characteristically distinct informatics models used to define what systems are designed more simply for the supply of information and what has been engineered for knowledge.
History
In the July 1945 issue of The Atlantic, the article by Vannevar Bush "As We May Think" considered
"Consider a future device … in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory."
As Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, Dr. Vannevar Bush has coordinated the activities of some six thousand leading American scientists in the application of science to warfare. In this significant article he holds up an incentive for scientists when the fighting has ceased. He urges that men of science should then turn to the massive task of making more accessible our bewildering store of knowledge. For years inventions have extended man's physical powers rather than the powers of his mind.[4]
This record was later a constituent of the remarks made by Ted Nelson in 1965 as he recorded and presented his views on "A File Structure for The Complex, The Changing and the Indeterminate.[5] in which he declares, The (creative) works of Ted Nelson went on to declare conceptual frameworks in which he presented his ideas of an Evolutionary File Structure (ELF), as a form of electronic list packaging framework for documents; in which his design extended by way of a "Personalized Retrieval, Indexing, and Documentation Evolutionary" System (PRIDE). At this time Ted Nelson, perhaps more importantly, went about defining a method in which to produce a system for the storage of knowledge on computing systems and in so doing, defined the terms HyperText and HyperMedia, introducing the word "hypertext" as a defined method to address the problem he described in the following way;
"a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not conveniently be presented or represented on paper. It may contain summaries, or maps of its contents and their interrelations; it may contain annotations, additions and footnotes from scholars who have examined it. Let me suggest that such an object and system, properly designed and administered, could have great potential for education, increasing the student's range of choices, his sense of freedom, his motivation, and his intellectual grasp".
Thereafter Robert Elliot Kahn & Vinton Gray Cerf produced Internet Protocol, Sir Tim Berners-Lee produced WWW which shortly thereafter, involving amongst others, James Hendler, DAML, the Semantic Web and over time the array of URI based machine-readable solutions that brought about an age where everything became interconnected. This in turn brought about an emergence of alternative decentralised database technologies such as BitCoin and other DLT solutions in addition to an array of other alternative protocol stacks that made attempts to solve Web science problems unable to be solved via the well-forged Internet governance modalities which are in turn being rendered support by way of DIDs (as distinct to dissociative disorder) which make an attempt to unify the graph database capabilities that produce the knowledge graphs used by Oligarchy whilst providing hope to others that solutions may emerge as to forge a knowledge Infosphere fit for purpose as a Prosthesis for human Consciousness.
Technical Foundations
The technical foundations of the Knowledge Age are based upon Semantic Web technologies.
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- ↑ mikallr, Noam Chomsky: 2009-10-29 Human Rights in the 21st Century, retrieved 2019-01-05
- ↑ www.w3.org https://www.w3.org/2007/09/map/main.jpg. Retrieved 2019-01-05. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ "New sources of growth: Knowledge-based capital - OECD". www.oecd.org. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
- ↑ Bush, Vannevar (1945-07-01). "As We May Think". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
- ↑ Nelson, T. H. (1965). "Complex Information Processing: A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing and the Indeterminate". Proceedings of the 1965 20th National Conference. ACM '65. New York, NY, USA: ACM: 84–100. doi:10.1145/800197.806036.
