On Jul 16, 2018, at 10:03 AM, Mark Stahlman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:Waldemar:
Sure. Let's go with *your* definition (after Thomas Kuhn) as "a pattern of thought, a system of beliefs, a conceptual framework." So, what were those thoughts/beliefs/concepts and what are they now becoming (and please feel free to add some of your own) . . . ??
Past Paradigm
- Globalism (or "one world")
- Decentralization (or "bottom-up")
- Orality (or the "archaic revival" and "post-literacy")
- Whatever? (or the disappearance of "causes" and "authority")
- Imagination (or the promotion of "make-believe")
- Memes (or the adoption of "advertising" everywhere)
Current Paradigm
- Many worlds (or what we call "spheres")
- Re-centralization (or the re-evaluation of "democracy")
- Literacy (or the revival of asking "deep" questions)
- WTF? (or the concern over how we got into this mess)
- Memory (or trying to think seriously about history)
- Judgement (or the rejection of slogans and jingles)
In late 2015, I was asked to present this contrast at a "Future of Text" conference in Silicon Valley honoring the work of Doug Englebart (who is a cultural *hero* thereabouts).
Here is what I said then about the "Technological Grammar of Our Lives" --
TELEVISION (past paradigm)
Post-industrial
60%/60% (of eligible men/women in the workforce)
Post-modern
Memes
Mythic
DIGITAL (current paradigm)
Robot-industrial (i.e. the new paradigm is based on A.I.)
30%/30% (i.e. the majority of the population has no "job")
Spheres
Lyric (i.e. the reassertion of "poetry" over "philosophy")
Memory
Needless to say, the goal here is *not* to "pick favorites" or to personally "identify" with one or another of these *paradigms* but rather to try to understand how they came about (causes) and what they are already doing to us (effects) . . . !!
MarkMark:
Gregg is back.
I am wondering if you might provide a definition of “the new paraditgm,” the one just past, and a comparison of the two?
Best regards,
Waldemar.
Waldemar A Schmidt, PhD, MD
(Perseveret et Percipiunt)
503.631.8044
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. (A Einstein)
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