The different between own experience and secondary experience delivered by digital media.19.01.25

The American futurologist Alvin Toffler wrote in 1970, it is about creating a healthy balance between the experiences that we as humans have had in the world since time immemorial and the secondary experience that is mediated. Around ninety percent of our knowledge of the world is now probably told to us through secondary experience, via conventional media and the Internet. This means that we no longer have the opportunity to draw on our own experience - we are basically standing on very shaky ground. For Toffler, this was already the effect of the future shock in the 1970s, that developments are happening so quickly that we can no longer keep up. That we are going through too much change in too short a period of time and are no longer able to keep up with it. Actually, says Toffler, we should be trained to cope with future experiences, the history of the future, and we should embrace social change. In the future, we should develop the ability to adapt quickly. We have now acquired this, at the expense of our stability. Lesson learned: change is the only constant. We adapt incredibly quickly, but realize that this makes us a kind of movable disposable mass.

https://archive.org/details/FutureShock-Toffler

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The different between own experience and secondary experience delivered by digital media.19.01.25

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