Users (instead of owners)

Where does this leave the billions of individuals who are processing information in the digital world today? Basically, they have become users (see also §01.01.18)—the latest step in humans’ (political philosophy) development. Starting simply as humans (i.e. animals), humans became individuals through their states, and citizens thereof (around 200.000 years ago), and today they are users (in the digital world). A user is an individual, citizen of a state, who processes information in the digital world, of course within the (digital) territory of its state, but importantly also in the territories of other states without ever physically leaving his or her own territory. A user of digital information differs from a user of analogue-world information due to the fact that the need for locality is removed—a physical presence in order to process (to act) is no longer necessary.

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