Thing and order in the context of the global information society infrastructure

Abstract

In the article opus, an attempt is made to identify features that are necessary attributes of a (physical) thing as an object of the Internet of Things and to isolate basic features from them. A measure “quantity of a thing” is introduced, based on the degree of ordering of the elements of a thing and allowing one to compare its potential information power as a source of primary information load on the Internet of Things.