Greetings Economists, On Jan 12, 2008, at 9:02 AM, Jim Devine wrote:
Modern communications definitely plays a role in homogenization of culture. BTW, homogenization goes hand-in-hand with cross-fertization.
Doyle; Vastly wrong. Let me take two givens now; more data storage space, and information interactivity. With more storage space then the scene can capture more than the moment (words spoken not recorded for re-use). There is no reason to be static, and every reason to build much more large scale diversity of information in the culture. Two the backwards one-to-many culture is falling rapidly before interactive media and the imposition of re- use or copying upon the concept of intellectual property. In a network re-use or copying is tantamount to a necessity. If one generates mountains of unconnected data the value of re-use is made impossible. As Carrol Cox often points out the more great genius write novels the less likely anyone will read them. In other words the question of practical use of information gradually gets more and more important as the great libraries grow bigger. Concretely small languages can be captured by recording and examined as to their brain process differences to see how we can optimize language connections between people. That is a storage issue. And re- use is about someone actually using the language to communicate. Or with image making, some companies are documenting all the streets in the world from a ground or street view to be re-used in Google or Yahoo. There is nothing to stop the public from creating vast graffiti like images to add to that network structure of civilization. This pushes aside the reactionary one-to-many culture to paint diversity upon the world. This builds a vast new culture unlike the one-to-many homogenous one you are complaining about. You write; comes to dominate an ecological niche Doyle; Ecological niches are very diverse and complex. The opposite of your comment. Not just commercially but in nature. you write; Americanized "world music" and non-US adaptations of US music Doyle; How many times do I have to bring up one-to-many before you get it about that information structure? thanks, Doyle Saylor
