In the November 1958 issue of the Harvard Business Review, Harold J. Leavitt and Thomas L. Whisler introduced the term information technology, epitomized by the invention of the stored-program computer during the previous decade.

Since then, information has been playing an increasingly influential role in what Daniel Bell called the Information Society in 1973, evolving into a potential Knowledge Society, which UNESCO reviewed in 2013 in ‘Towards Knowledge Societies for Peace and Sustainable Development’.

But there is really nothing new here. As the etymology of inform indicates, we humans have been informing each other for thousands of years. Furthermore, the entire world of form is providing us with data, which we interpret as meaningful information, influencing the way we behave and interact with each other.

It is thus clear that information is causal and synergistically energetic, when the effects of relationships between forms are taken into consideration. But this is a quite different conception of energy from that which lights our homes, cooks our food, and drives our cars. It is essentially qualitative, not measurable numerically.

Rather, information and knowledge have power from the way they act in the Cosmic Psyche, which is inaccessible to our physical senses. This revolutionary view of the psychodynamics of society opens up marvellous new vistas, explaining what is causing the pace of evolutionary change in society to accelerate at unprecedented, exponential rates of acceleration.

Most significantly, this conception of information has little to do with so-called information theory, for information is data with meaning. And Claude Shannon admitted in the fourteenth edition of Encyclopædia Britannica that information does not have meaning in the theory he introduced in 1950.

But once we recognize the central role that meaning plays in science, culture, and our daily lives, as David Bohm advocated, we can view the entire Universe as an information system, as some physicists are attempting to do today. For then we can generalize the modelling methods of information systems architects in business to develop the elusive Theory of Everything, the solution to the ultimate problem in human learning.

Most marvellously, by ending the long-running war between science and spirituality, we reveal Inner Peace in the Eternal Now, beyond conflict and suffering, having completed the Cosmogonic Cycle before our inevitable extinction, as a species.