5. 1400′s – renaissance
• everyone shared the same information environment
• information was transmitted orally
• young people had the same access to information that adults had
• families lived in very small spaces
• everyone shared the same intimate social environment,
• young people were exposed to all aspects of adult experience from the very beginning
6. 1450 – gutenburg press
• invention of the printing press
• rapid spread of books created a knowledge gap between adults and children
• access to adult information required the ability to read
• children forced to acquire their reading skills, drawn-out, step-by-step manner in schools
created expressly for that purpose
• dominant form of information was written and controlled by the adults, available to
children through a sequential schooling process
7. - telegraph
• invention of the telegraph
• communication instantaneous
• adults begin to lose control over the flow of information
8. - television
• television sped up the change exponentially
• transmits information instantly through visual images
• reduces the power and importance of the written world
• collapsed the information hierarchy because it requires no skills and does not segregate
its audience.
9. - internet
• internet provides children with almost infinite access to adult knowledge
• entirely on their own terms
10. As a result, writes Postman, the distinction between childhood and adulthood today
is like a movie playing in reverse.
reversing back to
11.
12. control
where did it stem from
how is it working for us
how to zoom us back in – to us
