Posted by prac on January 30, 2003 at 18:44:15:

In Reply to: Re: social embeddedness of knowledge posted by Reilly Atkinson on January 27, 2003 at 19:11:26:

Ola Reilly

Your statement about Freud is quite interesting. There was a certain experiment with rats to observe their behavior as space and other resources became increasingly scarce.

The results were very corporate like no? Knowledge will probably only be appreciated again, once it becomes scarce. Hence the knowledge economy, which I think is generally doing pretty badly in the world, and probably correlates to other economies as a whole. Did our lack of foresight (intuitive knowledge?) fail us, with domino effect? Maybe we should've listened a little more to our Freudian "instincts".

Perhaps Japan concentrated so much on knowledge acquisition after the two bombs destroyed hundreds of thousands of years' learning in 2 sudden blows. Isn't it strange how many great inventions there were in the post-WW2 era? Some of those inventions, as far back as early 50's are often rediscovered and heralded as "new" inventions in the year 2000 plus. There must be some culture and "sociology of survival" involved in there, somewhere. ;-)

Till later,

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