Chapter 01 — Information • 01.01 — Material and immaterial information, Paragraph 6.2 (§01.01.06.02)

In this way, since the beginning of time, immaterial information has been processed (and therefore controlled, see §06.00.04, and §24.00.03) by humans like material information, in four large cycles of materialisation and dematerialisation: (a) at first, at the beginning of recorded human history, certain immaterial information (thoughts, feelings and wishes) was materialised, meaning that it became perceptible by human senses in the analogue world, through paintings on cave walls and writing, see §01.01.07; (b) then, part of the materialised information was dematerialised (it became immaterial again, but this time in a fixed manner perceptible in the same way by more than one individual), when the first book was copied, see §01.01.08; (c) in the seventeenth century, the new concept of intellectual property designated only part of the dematerialised information as property, see §01.01.10; and (d) finally and most importantly, the digitisation of information, which has occurred recently and is ongoing (see §01.01.12), is, for the first time since the beginning of time (as outlined in point (a)), re-materialising this information in a different, entirely new format (the digital format) and for an entirely new world (the digital world). This includes all information: all material information as well as all dematerialised information is suitable for processing in the new digital world.

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