Information and communication technologies: the expansion of individual freedom and the gradual conquest of the universal

Nikolaos Sfakianos

doi:10.29329/jsomer.40

Authors

Nikolaos Sfakianos Panteion University, Greece https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0388-9434

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29329/jsomer.40

Keywords:

Information and Communication Technologies, Cosmosystemic Gnosiology, Social biology, individual freedom, Universal Freedom

Abstract

The field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has experienced exponential growth over the past decade. As a tool that has become integral to people's daily lives, ICT is used extensively on both individual and societal levels, influencing the way people interact with one another. This treatise employs the theory of cosmosystemic gnosiology to investigate and explain the influence of ICT on the expansion of individual freedom, the necessary integration of individuality into the collective, and the possibility of society's transition to universal freedom, contingent on the realization of the cosmosystemic time to which the present era relates. From this perspective, the practical challenges that societies of the early anthropocentric era face are elucidated, including the dismantling of privatization, fostering collective consciousness, and navigating the citizen-authority dynamic. This paper concludes by delineating the critical pathways through which these obstacles can be surmounted and by speculating on the prospective dimensions of advancement contingent upon the responsiveness of societies to the aforementioned issues. Pointing toward a future direction where the harmonization of technological progress and human values can become not only a theoretical study, but also essential for sustainable societal evolution.

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