Søren Brier, Professor at the Copenhagen Business School, published in 2008 the book “Cybersemiotics: Why Information Is Not Enough” (now available as paperback). The main argument is that meaning cannot be covered by accounts that reduce information to a technological…

Until 17 November 2014, the call to groups for participation brought a return of 45 proposals for special tracks. (And still there are proposals coming in.) So the programme takes shape! About half of them involve calls for papers. Others suggest tracks…

We chartered a ship for the whole last day of the Summit: the Summit will be continued on board. The ship is MS Admiral Tegetthoff from the DDSG and has room for plenary and parallel sessions as well. The floating conference…

So far we have four conference streams. One was already introduced here (The Difference that Makes a Difference – go to Call for Papers). Further conference streams are the following two. In 2008, when acting as Professor for Internet and Society…

Innovations are emergent processes. Though they are emergent and can’t thus be fully controlled, we are part of the game and have an influence on them. How can we facilitate the emergence of innovations that are needful and impact our societies…

Philosopher of Information, Luciano Floridi, known for his recent books “The Fourth Revolution – How the Infosphere is Reshaping Human Reality” (2014), “The Ethics of Information” (2013), and “The Philosophy of Information” (2011), now Director of Research at the OII,…

Tobacco mosaic virus (RNA virus). Image copyright Dennis Kunkel Microscopy, Inc. Besides articles, independent Austrian philosopher Günther Witzany has published a lot of books on biocommunication. He is listed in the network of James Shapiro on the third way of evolution, because…

Austrian is official carrier of our Summit. Also the well-known redtickets (which are the lowest fare of Austrian) are discounted for flights to Vienna from 27th of May, 2015, and from Vienna until 14th of June, 2015. So you can easily…

Due to the date of the Summit – Thursday is holiday, which makes the weekend long – rooms will be scarce. Tourists will populate Vienna. And maybe you want to come with your partner too! So it’s better you take…

Terry Deacon (selfie) Terrence Deacon is Speaker at the Summit. After the “Symbolic Species” he published in 2012 an impactful 600 pages book – “Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter” – in which he, as a (natural) scientist, applies, and finds…