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Sajbersvijet kao alegorijska paradigma nove civilizacije
Cyberworld as Allegorical Paradigm of New Civilisation

Author(s): Mladen Bubonjić
Subject(s): Social Philosophy, Theory of Communication, Social development, Globalization
Published by: Fakultet političkih nauka Univerziteta u Beogradu
Keywords: cyberworld; artificial intelligence; digital natives; digital immigrants; semantic web; web 4.0;

Summary/Abstract: Ubiquitous and above all expansive discourse on values of human relations, caused by evolution of digital technology, disputed by traditional humanists and praised by those who are delighted with a new concept of human interaction, represents splendid opportunity for analysis of actual situation which human society are undergo. Situation which personates present enthusiasm, on the one hand, and disgust, on the other, offers a chance to, entangle them in correlation, displays how traditional, wherever, East or West, confronts, respectively coheres with innovative. As never before, one technology contributes manifestation of new age in completely different sphere so far - ulterior, virtual sphere realizated by series of zeros and ones, by optic cable and global network. In the era of digital technology, New order of ages (Novus ordo seclorum) get new meaning – New, digital order of ages. Paraphrasing a famous Descartes declaration Cogito, ergo sum (I think, therefore I am), modern digital society produced a new phrase: Iugo, ergo sum (I am connected, therefore I am).

  • Issue Year: 5/2010
  • Issue No: 17
  • Page Range: 63-85
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Serbian