The
communication leap hypothesis |
The
communication leap hypothesis states
that every time a substantial increase of communication has occurred, a
major cultural change has followed.
Current communication
increase is the biggest. Cultural change should also be the
more important one and may happen quickly. |
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The severing
drama |
After any strong
communication leap, some social segments split from trunk population and
develop their own civilization. (How to face possible civilization clashes
between 2005 and 1015) |
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The second
digital divide |
A
low speed transition will produce a kind of society where an important
proportion of decision makers and leaders will still have no direct experience
on using the new communication technologies. The lag of decision
makers appears to be the second digital divide. It conveys
more devastating effects than the first divide at the
bottom. |
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The coming
cultural change |
Current
cultures need to start evolving quickly in order to
manage the novelty overload. By 2010 a kind of general emergency state
takes place and several large projects of
culture transformation start
everywhere. |
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The unbending
process |
In early stages, people is
confined within the boundaries of cultural prescriptions, In advanced
stages, people make their cultural frameworks to evolve. At the beginning
culture shapes people. At the end, people shape
culture. |
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Symbiotic
biosphere |
Entelechy which consists on
a biosphere where depredation, necrosis and parasitism have completely
been eradicated. |
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The white hole |
As soon as the amount of
communication reaches a critical mass, a white hole is formed. A white
hole is some sort of gate between material and nonmaterial
realms. In a very advanced white hole, all forms of communication are symbiotic
in nature. |
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Polymetric thinking |
Polymetric thinking is build
of the awareness of dyads and triads of antagonistic elements. While
conventional monometric thinking perceives reality as sets of attributes,
polymetric thinking understand reality as amalgams of
paradoxes |
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Overcoming
the industrial state of mind |
By Industrial
State of Mind I mean a set of economic paradigms, cognitive
structures and visions about economic activity and a clear
cut set of attitudes about economics.
As soon as the Industrial
State of Mind has been overcome and replaced by more powerful
views and attitudes, the new economic activity will be
able to flourish, producing higher standards of economic
output, far beyond any precendent |
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The retrieval hypothesis |
Some
day in distant future, humans or their descendents using
very advanced technology and knowledge would be able
to rebuild dead individuals.
This article explores what could happen if retrieval was
possible and how it could affect us now. |
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