“An invention or new combination can be successful only if all if the elements necessary for the recombination are present in the culture.” IfsCultureSuccessfulElementsInventionCombinationBeing Successful Book:Man's Rise to Civilization as Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State Source: Man's Rise to Civilization as Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State
“In every human society of which we have any record, there are those who teach and those who learn, for learning a way of life is implicit in all human culture as we know it. But the separation of the teacher's role from the role of all adults who inducted the young into the habitual behavior of the group, was a comparatively late invention. Furthermore, when we do find explicit and defined teaching, in primitive societies we find it tied in with a sense of the rareness or the precariousness of some human tradition.” KnowsWayHumansYoungLife IsCultureRolesTeachRecordsTeacherGroupsTeachingBehaviorLateAdultsTraditionSeparationInventionDefinedTiedPrimitiveHabitualHuman SocietyExplicitImplicit Author:Margaret Mead
“The quintessential exercise of free speech in a culture supposedly built on that concept and dedicated to it, the Internet's development is as historically important to humanity perhaps even more so as Gutenberg 's invention of the printing press.” ImportantHumanityCultureDevelopmentInternetExerciseSpeechConceptsBuiltPressesInventionDedicatedFree SpeechPrintingPrinting PressQuintessentialGutenberg Author:L. Neil Smith
“Over the years, I have become convinced that Hellenism as a culture represents not a static condition of uniform sublimity mysteriously achieved and maintained as an effect of some racial advantage. Rather it should be understood as an evolving process, governed by a dynamic of change, as both language and thought underwent transformational alteration caused by a transition from orality to literacy. The instrument of change is discerned to be the invention of the Greek alphabet, at a quite late stage in the history of developing cultures.” ShouldYearsCultureLanguageProcessConditionsEffectsStageLateUnderstoodAdvantageInstrumentsConvincedInventionDevelopingEvolveGreekTransitionUniformsLiteracyStaticAlphabetAlterationsSublimityHellenism Author:Eric A. Havelock
“An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What a splendid invention! What a really helpful and improving way of devoting your time to building something that turns off culture. Next week, I'm instigating Burn a Book Week, to encourage even more conversation. I've come up with a fantastic little device which I'll call a box of matches.” WayLittlesBookTurnsCultureNextWeekTelevisionBuildingConversationCome UpBoxesInventionFantasticHelpfulDevicesImprovingSplendidTurn OffNext WeekMarvellousRadiusRemote ControlBuilding Something Author:A. A. Gill
“If e-mail had been around before the telephone was invented, people would have said, 'Hey, forget e-mail! With this new telephone invention I can actually talk to people!'.” PeopleIfsSaidI CanCultureForgetInventionHeyMailTelephonesService Culture Author:Thomas Friedman
“The impact of television on our culture is. . . indescribable. There's a certain sense in which it is nearly as important as the invention of printing.” ImportantCertainCultureTelevisionImpactInventionPrintingIndescribable Author:Carl Sandburg