SOCIETAL METAMORPHOSIS

The Information Age is showing signs typical of middle-phase metamorphosis in a holistic developmental path common to many organic and some non-organic systems. Characterizing many living systems is a triadic growth seqence, of expansionist, restructuring and actualizing life stages, with respective qualities of materiality, information/structure and energy/spirit. Global human society is undergoing a natural and necessary metamorphosis, maturing out of a material-focused Industrial-Age childhood, and recently entering an Information-Age adolescence, to be characterized by thorough redesign and upgading of the relational systems that determine society's structure, i.e. its public and private governance institutions, laws, communications and transportation technologies, social conventions, shared values, and much more. The restructuring is well underway. In many respects the Information Age parallels human adolescence... The defining feature of childhood is physical development, when..

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