02/12/05
Individualizing Meta-system Frameworks

The flexibility of web-based meta-system frameworks offers the prospect of fully modularizing and individualizing such frameworks to maximize their value to people. The challenge of defining individualized meta-system frameworks entails profiling individuals within a meta-systems framework and determining the selection of characteristics that match the profile. This profiling of course can go on at different levels.

Creation of individualized meta-system frameworks also would require modularization and availability of alternative components of such frameworks that would provide people with a wide range of choices in the design and implementation of such a framework.

Meta-system frameworks and voluntary adaptation to such frameworks will only occur when such frameworks are made attractive to people, not so much as members of a common community, but as individuals with their own unique set of needs and interests in life. It has for some time been my opinion that each person would come to a meta-system framework in a unique and different way, and would end up defining and implementing such a framework in a highly individualized manner. What the same framework would mean to one person may not be the same it would mean to any other, though such a common shared framework would provide the basis for a common meta-culture and for communication to occur between very different people.

But this begs the question of exactly what is an individualized meta-system framework. I would say it is a highly personalized way of organizing life, especially a productive and meaningful life, that is congruent with a larger meta-systems framework that has global scope and relevance in the largest of senses. This would mean that though one person might be a pig farmer or fish monger in China and another person a chicken dealer or vegetable seller in Nigeria, there would be a common possible framework between them that would allow the articulation of each to occur within the same shared context, even permitting cooperative exchange to occur between them. This is wholly possible by means of the Internet. 

The prospect of bringing to realization individualized meta-system frameworks is actually the problem of creating a world in which individual freedoms and liberties can be more effectively realized, and ultimately, greater levels of human happiness and hence quality of life. The rise of digital systems of automation, of scale-free Internet-works, and of worldwide wireless communications, makes not only possible, but increasingly feasible, the prospect of the achievement of increasingly individualized systems that efficiently mediate human adaptation to their environment at all levels.

Providing people the means by which to configure their own frameworks in their life, through their empowerment, is what meta-systems development is ultimately supposed to be about. If it is or remains only the vision of a single person, like myself for instance, then it is nothing and will come to nothing in the larger world.

Individualized meta-system frameworks would as well create a common framework for promoting greater tolerance of individual differences and greater flexibility for dealing with differences. The object of a meta-system framework is that different systems and subsystems can be coordinate and interfunctional in a non-destructive manner.

It follows that any strategy that allows us to realize upon individual levels a range of configuration of meta-systems frameworks for different people is a strategy that is headed in the right direction. As I have previously hinted, the Internet and Worldwide Web provide, probably for the first time in human history, the very means for accomplishing this kind of strategy, as it potentially permits any person access to any information, and potentially, any product/service in the world. There is a lot more that must follow from this. So a revolution of information is only a beginning, not an end.