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The Evolution of Society - An Information-Processing Perspective (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
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The Evolution of Society - An Information-Processing Perspective (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
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This book covers the work of Erik W. Aslaksen who continues to
develop the view of society and its evolution published in earlier
work - The Social Bond (Springer 2018), The Stability of Society
(Springer 2020), and Measures of Social Evolution (Springer 2021),
bringing together core material of that work with the results of
recent investigations in order to present the evolution of society
as an integrated and continuous story leading right up to the
present time. A story of human action driven by our beliefs,
desires, and an ideology arising out of our ability to transform
and exploit our environment through the development and application
of technology. The distinguishing feature of the work is the
treatment of society as an information-processing system and
applying the system methodology for handling complexity, as it is
applied, e.g., in engineering. This focus on information is
particularly pertinent in the current circumstances, where the
world has arrived at a critical point in its history through the
conjunction of a number of issues that appear to be spiralling out
of control: Global warming and the associated climate change, the
destruction of our environment through such processes as land
clearing and industrialisation with associated loss of
biodiversity, the rapidly increasing visibility of the inequality
in the quality of life with associated tensions, and above all, the
determination of the US-led Western alliance to cling to its
hegemonial role, apparently at all cost. With the sophistication
and proliferation of nuclear weapons, the latter has the potential
to bring on the end of civilisation as we know it. The resolution
of any of these issues depends on the information available to all
parties involved, and hence, the availability and quality of
information is seen as the crucial and overarching issue of the
present time. A number of aspects of this issue, including the role
of education, economic inequality, and the control of the media,
are treated in some detail, and proposals for some small steps in
the right direction are put forward.
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