The Emergence Machine

Information Technology

abstract · social-science · Level 7 · E10

E10Institutions

Each concept here is mapped to its prerequisites — the ideas you'd need first to understand it — all the way down to four foundations: Space, Time, Energy, Pattern. Click any prerequisite to drill down, or scroll for the chain graph.

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Emergence definition

Information technology emerges from a system of interrelated components, including hardware, software, and networks, that processes, stores, and communicates information electronically, where hardware requires computer, system, material, structure, and components require existence, matter.

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Wiktionary senses

External reference — all senses of the word “information technology” on Wiktionary. This atlas concept maps to only the slice of meaning relevant to the prerequisite graph.

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Source: Wiktionary — “information technology”. Content available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Historical origin

Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL7L6L5L4L3L2L1L0Information Tech…ComponentBehaviorHardwareOrganismCellFunctionSoftwareFormInformationLifeObjectActionChangeExistenceMatterEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

Direct prerequisites above, concepts that depend on this one below.

thisprerequisitesInformation Tech…L7HardwareL4ComponentL6E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Hardware L4 (requires)
    A system of interrelated components, including hardware, software, and networks, that processes, stores, and communicates information electronically.
  • Component L6 (requires)
    A system of interrelated components, including hardware, software, and networks, that processes, stores, and communicates information electronically.