expand_less Given that a System is an information structure, we can proceed to analyze the world in terms of its nested information structures, or subsystems. All of the dynamics of complex systems can be realized in theory and observation by decomposing natural systems along emergent information flow boundaries. In biological cybernetics and cognitive sciences, we can analyze living organisms as self-producing and maintaining networks of processes that are open to the environment and the other beings coexisting therein. With the development of symbolic language in the homo line the stage was set for developing extended phenotypes in material culture. With home sapiens and the neolithic age this kicks into high gear, first accellerating slowly but the pace of change is ramping up the whole time.
This is how we find ourselves in the age of disruptive change where we either wise up fast or get kicked off the planet.