Noo Age Media
A SURVEY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND HUMAN CULTURE IN THE 21ST CENTURY
By Jack Byrne
This document is published to mark the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. As part of a drive to establish 'The Right to Communicate' as a basic human right. The information herein, is offered, free of charge, to all who are interested in the subject. Please feel free to download and distribute, on a not-for-profit basis, to any individual or organisation interested in, or working towards, the topics covered.
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THE STORY SO FAR…
This chapter deals with the impact of language and mythology on our perceptions. It examines how cultural evolution could be beneficially affected and how we might begin using the latest global information technologies to tell ourselves new stories, and thus creating a new-world view and behaviours.
MEDIA PATHS
This chapter looks at the three media sectors; public, commercial and community. It ties their output into global environmental and developmental issues and suggests the use of democratic media as the best way to initiate effective debate.
NOO AGE MEDIA
This chapter examines the evolution of consciousness and it's impact on human behaviour and the human habitat, the co-evolution of mind and technology, the potential of 'emergence' and minds plasticity. It introduces the concept of 'Noo Age' as a programming technique and examines it's potential relationship to the new global civil society.
THE NEW CENTURY
This chapter looks at both short and long term issues, such as the 'Right to Communicate' and 'democratic technics'. It introduces an energised notion of global community, serviced by the electronic media as a new global commons. It offers suggestions for creative elements to a designed evolution for humanity, including the design principles of 'positive feedback' and 'breakthrough thinking'
NOOSWERK
This chapter offers programming ideas to effect beneficial change in perception. Among them, information overload, mimetics and first impressions. It looks at news, at computer modelling and the internet as a means of global awareness raising.
EARTH THEMES
This chapter examines a range of issues that could form the basis of an electronically assisted global dialogue. These would include the person, meaning, dialogue, peace and tolerance, the biosphere and story telling.
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Last update 20 August 1998