Afterword—Rebooting Philosophy

Abstract

We have come to the end of this third volume. Together with the previous two, I hope it provides sufficient clarity and some designing tools for the philosophy of information to enable us to make the next step, which will be to understand and design the human project we may want to pursue in the twenty-first century. As usual, the more one explores, the more one realizes how much more work lies ahead, in terms of better understanding of the challenges we face, and efforts that we must make to devise adequate ways of thinking about our world, our society, and ourselves, in increasingly digitized contexts. By way of conclusion, in this afterword, I shall sketch the direction in which I hope we may make some progress. Many of the problems with which we are dealing and shall be dealing in the infosphere are uncharted territory, but I hope that a few points of reference may help us to get oriented. The actual navigation is left to the next volume, ...