While creating a language to encode and compute p2p social structures, I was thinking that parallel to those digital social structures, the Web would remain the same, used to store and retrieve information.
I am starting to believe that this is wrong. We need to encode the social contexts/structures around information. For now, they are either implicit or entirely missing.
Information is created by a social structure and it is used in other social contexts. Thus information has a social function. It is the input to other social processes.
If information provides a service to society or to some group of people, making this relation explicit also results in creating a feedback loop where those groups finance the creation of that information.
As you can see, information is not different from any other production process. A social structure produces a product, and that product is consumed by a specific group, which , if production was democratic, finances and guides production with participatory social structures.
Currently, information , on many occasions, lacks a social purpose and noone takes responsibility for the accuracy of that information. In the future I envision, information has a purpose and someone is responsible for it, for ex. to update it to make it more accurate or clear.
I am starting to believe that this is wrong. We need to encode the social contexts/structures around information. For now, they are either implicit or entirely missing.
Information is created by a social structure and it is used in other social contexts. Thus information has a social function. It is the input to other social processes.
If information provides a service to society or to some group of people, making this relation explicit also results in creating a feedback loop where those groups finance the creation of that information.
As you can see, information is not different from any other production process. A social structure produces a product, and that product is consumed by a specific group, which , if production was democratic, finances and guides production with participatory social structures.
Currently, information , on many occasions, lacks a social purpose and noone takes responsibility for the accuracy of that information. In the future I envision, information has a purpose and someone is responsible for it, for ex. to update it to make it more accurate or clear.
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