Tag: relationships
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Literate Debt in the Digital Age
Literate culture has mortgaged its future. Who will pay? In OS1 (oral) cultures, debt did not exist. Obligations existed. You can, for example owe someone your gratitude, or your allegiance, or your help or your vengeance in OS1 culture. But obligations in OS1 culture are defined by relationships between people. Whereas in OS2 (literate) cultures,…
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Public Gifting as Good Times and Good Business
I believe that networked culture – what I call OS3 – has a great deal to learn from oral culture, which I call OS1. Because they are both all about dialogues. Whereas OS2 culture – which currently dominates our world – is all about monologues. The reason that OS3 has a lot to learn from…
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