This content was created by Tracey Follows. This content was uploaded by Tracey Follows. This is a YouTube video titled "On The Emergence Of Information Biology" (posted 2023-10-02). The excerpt is a single-speaker commentary reflecting on the convergence of information technology and biology as the start of a Fourth Industrial Revolution (an "information biology" paradigm), and speculates about who will benefit or control it — nations, authoritarian regimes, liberal democracies, or powerful military coalitions — while warning the trend may produce a neo-feudal, digitally subjugated majority.
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It's the classic case of that information technology and biology coming together and really signifying this is the start of the Fourth Industrial Revolution properly and of information biology as a paradigm. Who's going to be the winner is very interesting because in the past it has been nations, of course. I wonder whether it's not really about nations anymore. Maybe it's about the kind of regime or system or governance structures Maybe the winner in the end is a collection of more authoritarian regimes who take the information biology paradigm and use it to their own advantage to control their populations. Or maybe it won't be that at all. Maybe it will be, you know, more freedom-loving, democratic, in the past liberal democracies, and that actually there's a much more sort of decentralized way of using a lot of these technologies in a way that still confers upon people their personal responsibility. So I guess I wonder whether there's more of a merging of certain power brokers or strata in both China and the US, for example, who could use information biology to their own means. I've heard you talk at length about the bifurcation of the world. And so one could think, well, maybe China will win out on this information biology, But then maybe you say actually it's the world's military powers. It doesn't matter what nation they come from. Maybe it's the most powerful military parts of many nation states that collect together to actually make a success of this Fourth Industrial Revolution. I think one thing's for sure, at the moment it feels like the Fourth Industrial Revolution is certainly creating some kind of neo-feudalism, some kind of society where it feels like there is for the mass mainstream, the 80-90% of people, it's some kind of digital slavery.
