Comments on: Person-To-Person Transmission of Knowledge

By: Big Elk

Big Elk — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:36:35 +0000

Right! That’s exactly what I’m talking about. Subject matter which you learn from someone else is less relevant than the context of the person and your interactions together. Those are what lasts the rest of your lifetime after subject-specific knowledge fades away into nothing.

By: alistair

alistair — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:20:34 +0000

person-to-person communication contains the rich message of the person them selves. the gestures, the inflection of the voice, the emotions, the neuro-chemistry……when we mirror that neurologically it programs differently than any other form of communication.

the messages we will pass on to future generations are the ones we talk about with the most passion.

By: sean

sean — Wed, 07 May 2008 07:17:48 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Argu...nts_for_the_Elimination_of_Television

By: Julia

Julia — Tue, 06 May 2008 23:30:05 +0000

So I guess this mean that the folk tales we will pass along to the future from our era are Iron Man, Heath Ledger’s Joker and an old indiana Jones.

By: Ted Heistman

Ted Heistman — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:13:00 +0000

I think maybe what you are grasping at is the relationship between culturally transmited “folk music” that would be performed live and face to face…..and mass produced music in terms of scalability.

The way scalable phenomena works is that its “winner take all” Music industry is scalable. So is writing. A few artists have a exponentially disporportionate market share.

Before various types of technology most things weren’t scalable that are scalable now.

Like the spoken word was not scalable, before writing was invented. The printing press increased the scalability and then the internet increased it more. Same with how digital exponentially increased the scalability of music recording.