The new information technologies can be seen to drive societies toward increasingly dynamic high-energy regions further and further from thermodynami… - Ervin László

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The new information technologies can be seen to drive societies toward increasingly dynamic high-energy regions further and further from thermodynamical equilibrium, characterized by decreasing specific entropy and increasingly dense free-energy flows, accessed and processed by more and more complex social, economic, and political structures.

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About Ervin László

Ervin László (born May 12, 1932) is a Hungarian philosopher of science, systems theorist, integral theorist, originally a classical pianist. He has published about 75 books and over 400 papers, and is editor of World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution.

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Native Name: László Ervin
Alternative Names: Ervin Laszlo

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