The Wealth of People

Exploring Implications for Work and Identity in the Digital Environment.

Sunday, May 12, 2019

A New narrative for a Flourishing-Creative World and a Generative Future - Part 2 - Earth as co-creator of a human-made container

Earth as co-creator of a human-made container I want to remind ourselves of McLuhan pithy aphorisms: When Sputnik went around the planet in 1957 the earth became enclosed in a man-made environment and became thereby an “art” form. The globe became a theatre enclosed in a proscenium arch of satellites. From that time the “audience” or the population of the planet became actors in a new sort of theatre. Mallarmé had thought that “the world exists...