Media, Information and Technoculture 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Autoamputation, Media Create, 18 Months
4 Mar 2020
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Spoken word societies create people with complex emotions and feeling and a strong sense of community. Print literacy ( alphabetism ) teaches people how to suppress their emotions in the interests of e ciency and practicality. Electronic media create the global village combining scienti c knowledge and the interdependence of all human society. Might not out current translation of our entire lives into the spiritual form of information seem to make of the entire globe, and if the human family, a single consciousness . The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations . Throughout previous evolution, we have protected the central nervous system by outing this or the physical organ in tools, housing, clothing, cities. But each outing of individual organs was also an acceleration and intensi cation of the general environment until the central nervous system did a ip. Electricity outered the central nervous system itself, including the brain.
