The separate database, or information system, is no longer the paradigmatic concept. A radical shift is underway from closed control to open interconnection.

in: The ontological atom of behavior: toward a logic for information modeling beyond the classics

 

With pervasive digital interconnectivity, the limited perspective of the separate organization is increasingly causing social problems while opportunities remain unrecognized and are therefore being missed. […] The urgency derives from digital technology’s ever increasing capacity for instantaneous interconnectivity.

in: Civil information management, a short introduction: an information discipline for society and the metaphor of traffic

 

A history of social interaction shows that, say, infrastructuralization is always a process. Establishing interdependency for information resources certainly is no exception. At this stage, what is also certain is that it happens sooner or later, simply in the wake of open interconnectivity.

in: Ontology for interdependency: steps to an ecology of information management

 

Distributed information resources can now be instantly, reliably interconnected. It simply follows that such resources should henceforth be treated as interdependent.

in: Ontology for interdependency: steps to an ecology of information management

 

What the current cycle, i.e. development of digital networking, helps accomplish is that exponentially more, and more varied, information can become integrally accessible, regardless of distributed origins. How is such variety controlled?

in: Metapattern of natural complexes: enlisting Justus Buchler's metaphysics for informational infrastructure

 

Information access is increasingly disengaged from — restrictions for — physical access.

in: Semiotics of identity management

 

Most people will increasingly experience the world as multi-faceted, highly pluriform. And accelerating changes make the world ever more dynamic. In fact, modern information and communication technology itself is now a prime driver of this postmodern human condition.

in: The pattern of metapattern: ontological formalization of context and time for open interconnection

 

I[nformation] T[echnology] does not just replace traditional instruments for granting or denying physical access. It also establishes an additional access category, i.e. virtual access. For IT now makes information resources instantly available across distance in place and/or time.

in: Semiotics of identity management

I see the enneadic model as part of development of empirical sciences. Never before was there the 'problem' of unambiguous control of informational variety. As long as man himself was always the, say, context-switcher, indeed, it was if we were the fish not realizing what water is. But now we're increasingly leaving the context-switching to machines, requiring explicit design considerations for context. Presto, the formal ennead.

in: Notes on Metapattern and enneadic semiosis, part 2

 

Driven on by developments in technology for open interconnection, conceptual information modeling is increasingly challenging. The need for a conceptually realistic balance in creating, handling and retrieving increasingly complex and often dynamic information is urgent, as the so-called information society will most certainly continue to evolve at an accelerated pace.

in: The pattern of metapattern: ontological formalization of context and time for open interconnection

 

Developments in digital technology (open interconnection) challenge us to change to a richer paradigm for information modeling.

in: Notes on Metapattern, part 1

 

[C]ontrolling contextual and temporal variety without operational limits has already become essential at the scale where information technology is currently applied, not to mention the future.

in: On metapattern and other themes in information management

 

We are engaged in applying information technology for interconnection. So, we are facing — increased risks by orders of magnitude of — ambiguities in interpretation.

in: note 23.1

 

In an interconnected world, that is, where information and communication technology has developed to the stage where every originally separate, independent locality may be(come) a network node, […] the only practical course is to acknowledge interdependency. As it is impossible both to have the cake (remain independent) and to eat it (profit from interdependency), a consistent policy and its subsequent implementation [are] necessary. Interdependency can mean a large gain, but only when the loss of independency is constructively reckoned with.

in: Ontology for interdependency: steps to an ecology of information management

 

We are in urgent need of a paradigm shift in conceptual modeling. Actually, we’ve more or less forced it upon ourselves by applying digital networking technology at the global scale. As we’re interconnected across traditional boundaries of all kinds, and of course partly dissolving such crossings in the process, it has become radically more uncertain that our previously simple expressions will still be properly understood. What has locally always been sufficient as a text, now each needs to be complemented with explicit context for precise localization. Including context is what Metapattern is all about, facilitating open conceptual modeling.

in: Open conceptual modeling with Metapattern

 

I myself find most pressing the need for disambiguating information at the scale of exchange now being facilitated as a matter of growing routine with digital technologies. What is now required is not more technology, but semiotic theory oriented at practical exchange, et cetera. From such a theory reckoning with meaning(ful) variety at the relevant scale (!), technology should follow. The other way around simply doesn’t work.

in: note 53.4

 

More specifically, I refer to enneadic semiotics as a productive metatheory, i.e. oriented at operationalization, and to a modeling method/language (Metapattern) for designing et cetera resources actually facilitating a (multi)contextualistic approach applying digital technologies.

in: note 53.16

 

Through digital networking technologies, the fact is that isolated systems are obsolete, counterproductive. For real variety under interdependence dictates that it is no longer possible to derive relevant behavior from merely identifying an object. Without an extremely narrow scope, there is right away more to determining relevant behavior.
What distinguishes different behaviors of one and the same object, are different situations it engages, vice versa. So, what equals behavior must be seen as the configuration of object and situation. This is Metapattern’s relativity principle. It lends itself for straightforward recursion. An object and a situation together yield a situational object. In turn, a resulting situational object may serve as either object and/or situation to constitute another situational object, i.e. with yet more differentially detailed behavior attributed to it, and so on. Labeling behaviors as mutually contradictory can now be recognized as a pseudo-problem originating from the limiting paradigm of atomism; there really is no contradiction where an object’s different behaviors are geared to different situations.

in: note 56.5

 

In some work or other, and at some time or other, really from Plato onwards all relevant axiomatic concepts seem to have been mentioned and put in some perspective. Only lacking was yet another synthesis. […] It should not be surprising, though, that it happens to us here and now. For we are only quite recently confronted with digital technologies pervasively facilitating ‘communiting,’ resulting in problems of integrated order for information that require a qualitatively different method for their practical solution.

in: note 71.9