THREE INTERFACES OF ADAM
Since the shift from an industrial to a post-industrial society is a structural rather than a sectorial shift, it is necessary to have a broad model to understand it. That is, a model which describes the whole society rather than simply some sector of it. The Three Interfaces of Adam is an attempt at such a broad model.
The person could be considered as the triple overlap of three spheres - ecosphere, sociosphere, and technosphere (Gardiner, see Figure 3). It is important that the environment be differentiated into the natural world (ecosphere), social world (sociosphere), and artificial world (technosphere), because, whereas the person is part of all three, the relationship between the person and each of the spheres is different. The person is the most complex system in the ecosphere, an element of the sociosphere, and the source of the technosphere. The study of the person in each of those spheres is therefore different. Person-in-ecosphere is the domain of the natural sciences, person-in-sociosphere is the domain of the social sciences, and person-in-technosphere is the domain of what Herbert Simon has called the sciences of the artificial (Simon).
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