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From Industrial to Information

The Industrial Age


The Information Age

Mechanical
Renaissance
Newtonian Physics
Visual Space
Detachment
Connected/Linear
Sequential
Cause and Effect
Homogenous/Uniform
Material Intensive
Product
Standardization
Mechanical
Physical
Sport
Single Viewpoint
Perspectivism
Static
Absolute Truth or Reality
Idealized Conception
Seeing is believing
Past, present and future
Past remains fixed
Science
The Objective Viewer
Specialist
Independent
Cause and Effect
Hardware
Clock, Wheels, Cogs
Facts and Figures
Western
Civilized and Literate


Electric
20th Century
Quantum Mechanics
Acoustic Space
Involvement
Continuous
Relative
Simultaneous
Multi-locational
Knowledge Intensive
Knowledge
Customization
Biological
Mental
Art
Multiple Viewpoints
Mosaic Forms
Fluid
Models of Reality
Perception
Believing is seeing
Now!
Past changes to current viewpoint
Art
The Perceptual Response
Holistic
Interdependent
No beginning or end
Software
Water, DNA, Virus
Knowledge
Eastern
Tribal and Pre-literate

THE DRAWING BOARD IS TO THE INDUSTRIAL AGE AS COMPUTERS ARE TO THE INFORMATION AGE

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