"Society 2.0: A Narative of the Technological Ripeness for Innovation"

Introduction
Organisms, networks, societies and communities exchange information using interactive modes of communication. These entities utilize methods of information flow through biological and 'artificial' information systems. Information technologies facilitate this process-regardless the medium of communication- enabling organisms, networks, societies and communities to fluidly-direct their actions, based on the information that is available to the network. This is more apparent in the context of how biological systems direct the actions of ‘networks’ based on the information these organisms can perceive. Examples of systems in nature using information in simple social networks to create long-term survival solutions for guiding how the actions of individual organisms should orient to 'socially-create' a reality of the 'betterment' of that organization are seen everywhere. Humans have developed biological information technologies; our senses, being the physiological methods of perceiving and exchanging information. We have also created artifice; physical technologies which amplify our communicative and informational potential. The development of artifice-based, global-‘information systems’ is something that other organisms have not accomplished on earth. This fact may seem like an obvious statement, but the simplicity and interoperability of 'our' unique example of biological information systems being appropriately utilized to innovate "'user-created' information systems of artifice" begs the question of just how technologically advanced methods of exchanging information could be oriented differently? Could informing society in a way which appropriately uses information technologies allow individuals to predicatively organize entire networks; similarly to how biological organisms typically do this for the survival of that 'network' or even species? If humans currently use mainstream media and social-madia information technologies in ways which only minimally inform-- only marginally inspiring social collaboration or participation in how society is guided-- then how can society use the technology currently available to facilitate more informed social actions? ‘Society 2.0’ is the idea that as the ‘social software’ which guides the use of information technologies continues to orient toward integrative methods of collaboration and information dissemination; a social orientation to becoming informed will become apparent at an individual level, providing the incentive for communities and society-at-large to therefore use the tools available to manage, share, and discover innovative knowledge formations; changing the actions and developments of society. Through various methods of incorporating accessible and searchable interdisciplinary research through online media; a ‘Society 2.0’ would use information technology to research, disseminate, collaborate, and coordinate what individuals should do to advance society. Although not considering 'natural' knowledge systems in the statement; in 1964 Oliver W. Holmes wrote “Knowledge exists in two forms: (1) "active knowledge," meaning that to be found in the brains of living human individuals and therefore available to them at any given moment as bases for actions, and (2) "passive (or potential) knowledge," which exists in the great reservoir of documents in which have been recorded the experiences, observations, thoughts, and discoveries of other men, chiefly those of the past.” (Holmes 1964) Putting both our active and passive knowledge to action; fully representing our physical selves as the informed beings we are (or will be); and producing outcomes and externalities in the physical world that demonstrate the social understanding of our knowledge is the epistemological crux of “Society 2.0.”


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