Lawry deBivort wrote: > Beyond the metaphorical story lies a worse problem: we lose institutional > memory when people die, and so as a species learn only a fraction of the > lessons that as individuals we are treated to. > > This makes me wonder how lessons might be disseminated and remembered more > effectively, at the level of the species as a whole. > > It is temping to say: this can be done through a 'world bank of learnings', > but then we run up against two problems: > > 1. the massive competition for attention that every communicator is now > stymied by > 2. the seemingly growing impatience of people with the 'task' of > learning.
Globally, few have Internet but even the poorest and illiterates have TV. The problem is that TV isn't used for true info dissemination but for the contrary. (At age 16, the average U$ child has watched over 30,000 murders.) Why? Because the wrong people are pulling the levers. Change that and the problem you outlined above is solved. Chris _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
