The document discusses how the flow of information has changed over time from oral traditions to the modern digital age. It describes how the invention of the printing press, telegraph, television, and internet have increasingly decentralized information and broken down hierarchies by making communication more instantaneous and accessible to all people, including children, independent of adults and schools. As a result, the distinction between childhood and adulthood has reversed back closer to a time when everyone shared the same intimate social and information environment.

1. to see

3. rhizomatic learning
decentralizing
breaking down hierarchy
unleashing control

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

12. control
where did it stem from
how is it working for us
how to zoom us back in – to us

17. to us

19. people. face to face. eye to eye. heart to heart. love.