Is "Digital Society" a Thing?

 During our Digital Society class discussion on what Society is and how it is connected to the digital world, some of us got carried away pondering over the true meaning of the expression "Digital Society". 

The argument that I really liked is how can society be digital if its property is physical by default, composed of physical beings, humans? 

To support this statement that was made by one of the participating students, I added that probably it'd be better to call it a Digitized Society, with "ed" at the end rather than "al". To describe a society in which the created content has been digitized and therefore extended into a digital platform.

Instinctually I want to use the term Digital to describe a time period, an Era, or an Age in which digital information transmittal has become a part of everyone's life. We live in a Digital Age. Just like our ancestors lived in other Eras and Ages:

• Iron Age: 1200 BCE - 500 CE
• Renaissance Era: 14th-17th centuries
• Enlightenment Era: 17th-19th centuries
• Industrial Era: 18th-20th centuries
• Digital Age: 20th century - present

How can we be a Digital Society when we are not virtual but physical beings? We may have a digital presence: an extension of our personal story, biography, and social footprints, but we do not physically migrate into the digital medium. We remain in a physical, tangible space where all of our senses work intact: smell, taste, sight, reflexes, and emotions.

There are some adjectives, however, that go well with the word Society and these are: 

• Ancient
• Contemporary
• Enlightened
• Modern

These are the properties that do not necessarily contradict our state of being, as breathing and feeling humans. We could, in fact, be ancient, contemporary, enlightened, or modern, and yet remain our own animated beings.

It appears that the degree of adventure and excitement that new, highly complex technological and computerized content brings into our lives, distracts us so much from our own candid, mental, and physical selves, that we've come to believe that we are an extension of the digital medium, rather than the latter being an extension of us.