New Technologies

from the centralized party to civil society networks and virtual communities

Authors

  • Nilton Bahlis dos Santos Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18617/liinc.v4i1.253

Keywords:

Complex systems, Social networks, Virtual interaction device, Political party, New technologies

Abstract

By the time the society didn't have complexity, it seemed to be able to keep the population in a hierarchical network, organized by intermediaries, around a program conducted by "scientific theory". Today, the complexity makes the centralization in global projects unviable. The complex systems use simple rules to construct higher level intelligence, where local agents generate surprisingly complex structures. The fast context changing, permanently, exceeds any possibility of unifying interests in a general plan. New technologies, however, make it viable for networks that incorporate and share a large diversity, configuring decentralized networks, ruled by the synchronization of actions of a multiplicity of civil organizations.

Author Biography

  • Nilton Bahlis dos Santos, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.

     

     

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Published

18/11/2025

Issue

Section

Networks: Connections Between Science, Technology and Society