A coisificação da internet [e não só]
em novembro de 2005, apareceu o relatório the internet of things da international telecommunications union, que foi uma das estrelas do wsis.tunísia. julian bleecker tem algo muito mais leve [e grátis] em seu blog [theory objects & design patterns]: um manifesto intitulado “da importância das coisas“. infelizmente, julian não cita [nem toma como ponto de partida…] o trabalho de luciano floridi, que antecede em muito o “internet of things”, começa com Information Ethics: On the Theoretical Foundations of Computer Ethics, publicado em 1999 em Ethics and Information Technology [1.1, 37-56] e vem rolando desde então. em 2005, floridi publicou Is Information Meaningful Data?, na Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, [70.2, 351-370]. entender floridi é essencial para discutir porque a ética da infosfera [a internet de todas as coisas, inclusive nós!] não deveria ser antropocêntrica.
March 23rd, 2006 at 5:41 pm
Thank you for mentioning this essay I wrote. I am not familiar with Floridi’s work — but perhaps you can motivate me about the relationship between his essay (which I _just_ downloaded) and mine? Just one or two or three linkages, or how his essay might be knitted into my work.
Thanks!
March 23rd, 2006 at 9:52 pm
julian, thnks for visiting.
i think the linking between *internet of things*, your work and floridi’s is that he starts from an abstract [and philosophical] definition of infosphere… which goes more or less like… “it is the semantic space constituted by the totality of documents, agents and operations performed by the latter over the former”. certain autonomous docs also act upon themselves, allowing for OO to get into the picture. and much more
in this theoretical setting, further defining information semantically [and orthogonally to shannon] floridi creates a setting where “things” are de facto sources|sinks of information in the infosphere. we are things… but we are agents [can carry ops over docs]… and we are also documents [because we *contain* data].
i think luciano is indeed laying the foundation of what is going to be a new science of information and we’d all benefit a lot by studying his thinking further and closer, cheers, s.