Tag: Values
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Digital Bridges to a Sustainable Future – Part 1
In my book, and on this blog, and practically anywhere else where I can find an audience lately, I have been saying that the only way to overcome the eco-cidal tendencies of OS2 (literate) culture is for us to build bridges between sustainable OS1 (oral) culture and hyper-efficient OS3 (digital) culture. The two obvious questions…
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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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Array of Words and The Manilla Street Kid Digital Gift Economy
Last night at the Capital Slam I met a poet who recently returned from several months in the Philippines and Nicaragua. In both countries he gave numerous poetry workshops. Very cool. He is a hard-hitting poet whose piece about the selling of girls into sexual slavery in Asia last night was brutally intense. His name…
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