Cultural Transmission in the Digital Age

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Humans having been exchanging cultural elements, including technology for hundreds of thousands of years. But it was often slow and mostly happened through conflict and conquest or trading. Information tools, like language and writing when analog had constraints such as the ability to produce them at scale and transportation technologies too were fairly limited.

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Giles Crouch | Digital Anthropologist

Digital / Cultural Anthropologist | I'm in WIRED, Forbes, National Geographic etc. | I help companies create & launch human-centric technology products.