Squonk,
The issue of the ubiquitousness of computers in society has always puzzled me. At times i think that we've become much too inextricably dependent on them. but then they also seem to provide communication and commerce and all. Ultimately i think that we would have been better off never knowing of computers in the first place. That way, we'd be missing a lot, but we wouldn't know what we were missing, so we wouldn't care.
I'm not too keen on the idea of human-software interaction constituting the 5th level. My view is that the 5th level consists of the patterns formed by the intellectual level (ie, inorganic produces biological, biological produces societal...) But, if the 5th level is through software interaction, why did the formation of this 5th level wait until now to come about? What is it about the conditions of today that makes the formation possible? I dont know, i havent contributed much to all of this discussion about the 5th level because i don't know very much about it.
rasheed
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