josep burcet, the digital fracture

• digital fracture, the second one - When talking about digital fracture we usually refer to some social segments which could be excluded from the benefits of the new coming communication society. Josep Burcet � 2002
  
• paradigms
  
  
  
  • the leap hypothesis - The leap hypothesis states that every time a substantial increase of communication has occurred, a major cultural change has followed
    
  • the severing drama - After any strong communication leap, some social segments split from trunk population and develop their own civilization
    
  • the unbending process - In early stages, people is confined within the boundaries of cultural prescriptions, In advanced stages, people make their cultural frameworks to evolve
    
  • value wars & value cohabitation - Value wars attitude leads people to enforce their own values upon the others. Value cohabitation attitude uses alien values to improve ones own value set
    
  • the communication paradigm - Communication is the more basic ingredient of all biological and human processes. The evolution of life consists on the expansion of communication. Any condition working against communication, hampering or impairing it, is a factor against life and its evolution
    
  • symbiotic biosphere - Entelechy which consists on a biosphere where depredation, necrosis and parasitism have completely been eradicated.
    
  • the white hole - As soon as the amount of communication reaches a critical mass, a white hole is formed. The white hole is some sort of gate between material and nonmaterial realms. In a very advanced black hole, all forms of communication are symbiotic in nature.
    
  • polymetric thinking - Polymetric thinking is build of the awareness of dyads and triads of antagonistic elements. While conventional monometric thinking perceives reality as sets of attributes, polymetric thinking understand reality as amalgams of paradoxes