Information Ages
Medium is the message...
Ask yourself what our technology tells us about information:
- Problem-Framing
- Problem-Solving
- Cognition
Primary Orality:
> Learned through participate
> Use of mnemonics (epic poems)
> Practical rather than abstract
> Social communication (dancing, call-and-response)
> Dynamic knowledge (updated on the go)
> Education through apprenticeships
Literate Cultures:
> Learned through instruction
> Controlled by technicians (priests, lawyers, teachers)
> Abstractions
> Laws, property ownership, money
> Religion
Post-literate Culture:
> Learn through participation
> Dynamic knowledge
> Control by technicians (?)
> Lifelong learning
