Infocology

Description

Polytopia:

"Infocology: Information ecology – Basically the sum total of a particular kind or set of information, related to a particular domain of interest. Infocologies are nested and carry a given set of characteristics defined by the design and function of the infocology in question.

Infocologies stand for the ambient ecology of minds in a hyperconnected situation.

Infocologies should be considered as complex adaptive cultural contexts of hyperconnectivity in which transformative and processual properties extend the being of a particular mind

Infocologies can be seen as inter-relational spaces extending the biological autonomy of the individual mind into new forms of being manifested as the cyber-autonomy manifold.

Facebook for example is a medium size infocology nested within the larger infocology of the overall social networks infocologies of the net, themselves nested within the larger framework of the Web. (Of course also within FB there exists a continuum of nested infocologies, defined by friends or acquaintances and so on)

(It is my view that as the complexity of the web continues to increase both in size and widespread, the babushka effect reflected in nested infocologies will grow exponentially and in consequence the importance of Archeodatalogy will develop in tandem. )

Some other examples of infocologies:

• The set comprised of all commentators on say CNN or the NYT current news page.
• The set of all Wikipedia users as an ensemble represent an infocology."

(http://spacecollective.org/Wildcat/8216/Archeodatalogy-Entwined-Enmeshed-Entangled)