20 DEC 2013 by ideonexus
Professional Parents
If a smaller number of families raise children, however, why do the children have to be their
own? Why not a system under which "professional parents" take on the childrearing function
for others?
Raising children, after all, requires skills that are by no means universal. We don't let
"just anyone" perform brain surgery or, for that matter, sell stocks and bonds. Even the lowest
ranking civil servant is required to pass tests proving competence. Yet we allow virtually
anyone, almost without...The idea that we should have people who work as parents because they are good at it, like we have with day-cares.
01 JAN 2010 by ideonexus
The Content of Any Medium is Always Another Medium
The electric light is pure information. It is a medium without a message, as it were, unless it is used to spell out some verbal ad or name. This fact, characteristic of all media, means that the "content" of any medium is always another medium. the content of writing is speech, just as the written word is the content of print, and print is the content of the telegraph.
...Whether the light is being used for brain surgery or night baseball is a matter of indifference. It could be argued that ...Folksonomies: new media
Folksonomies: new media
Mediums are object-oriented, with one extending from another, inheriting from the parent.