ENVI 130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Movies Now
8 Sep 2016
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Hunter-gatherers for 1 million years o o. Domestication: 15,000 years ago, middle east, private property. State level society: 5,300 years ago, middle east, government. Globalization: in progress, world, digital, rise of the machine. As of 2011, over 1-billion personal computers in use in usa, europe, and japan. 2011, smart phones and tablets surpass computers in sales. The human social world is very small, 150 people: clique, sympathy group, associates. Now we can be in contact with 7-billion. Now = digital techniques: humans gained information form contact with other humans. Pre-digital = printed material, radio, tv, and movies. Gaming: mmo vs. interactive vs solo vs active. You have three choices when change happens : adapt, migrate, go extinct. Food shortages population growth: depletion of resources (conspicuous consumption) Receptive to change only after about 10 years: after 50 years old, Creeping normalcy: may take 6 generations for change to be seen as normal.
