Cognitive Development of the Web
Viktoras Veitas, David Weinbaum (Weaver)

TL;DR
This paper explores the sociotechnological dynamics of the Web as a super-organism, emphasizing the importance of values and intelligence expansion in its evolution, combining pragmatic analysis with value-based perspectives.
Contribution
It presents a model of the Web's sociotechnological evolution focusing on reflexivity, values, and the role of intelligence expansion as a guiding principle for future development.
Findings
Web as a sociotechnological system of humans and artifacts
Values, especially intelligence expansion, are central to Web evolution
Emphasizes the balance between pragmatic and value-based analysis
Abstract
The sociotechnological system is a system constituted of human individuals and their artifacts: technological artifacts, institutions, conceptual and representational systems, worldviews, knowledge systems, culture and the whole biosphere as a volutionary niche. In our view the sociotechnological system as a super-organism is shaped and determined both by the characteristics of the agents involved and the characteristics emergent in their interactions at multiple scales. Our approach to sociotechnological dynamics will maintain a balance between perspectives: the individual and the collective. Accordingly, we analyze dynamics of the Web as a sociotechnological system made of people, computers and digital artifacts (Web pages, databases, search engines, etc.). Making sense of the sociotechnological system while being part of it, is also a constant interplay between pragmatic and value…
Peer Reviews
No public reviews on file for this paper yet. If you reviewed it on a platform where reviews are public (OpenReview, ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML), you can paste yours below so the community can read it here.
Videos
No videos yet. Explain this paper in a talk, walkthrough, or lecture? Add one.
Taxonomy
TopicsEmbodied and Extended Cognition · Cognitive Science and Education Research · Language and cultural evolution
