Once, long ago, culture revolved around the spoken word. The oral skills of memorization, recitation and rhetoric instilled in societies a reverence for the past, the ambiguous, the ornate and the subjective. Then, about 500 years ago, orality was overthrown by technology.
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Idea Lab - Becoming Screen Literate - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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We are now in the middle of a second Gutenberg shift — from book fluency to screen fluency, from literacy to visuality.
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A Hollywood blockbuster can take a million person-hours to produce and only two hours to consume. But now, cheap and universal tools of creation (megapixel phone cameras, Photoshop, iMovie) are quickly reducing the effort needed to create moving images.
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then so can the growing, complexifying technological assemblage we have surrounded ourselves with. Its complexity is approaching the complexity of a microscopic organism.
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For the last 1,000 years, this techosphere has grown about 1.5% per year. It marks the difference between our lives now, verses 10,000 years ago. Our society is as dependent on this technological system as nature itself.
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Technology changes so quickly that many people from previous generations can not keep up with new advancements. However, the world is now based on these technologies and could not function without them. Life over the past 1,000 years has been redefined because of this technium and has advanced our way of life in ways we do not even comprehend. No one could survive without technology.
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