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The deep breath changing communication cultures

The three generations of Information Technology are handwriting, printing and digitalization. Homo Sapiens is the reading species, moving from City State to Nation State and out into Cyberspace

Ivar Gjørup (Copenhagen 2001)
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Ivar Gjørup

MA in Classical Languages, Cartoonist

Bom 1945, MA in Classical Languages, lives in Aarhus, makes the Comic strip 'Egoland' for the leading Danish newspaper Politiken; has written for the stage, produced in Copenhagen and Aarhus; author of the book 'Den sjette sans' (The Sixth Sense), published 2000, con­ cerning the socio-scriptural development of Information Technology: 2000 years of manu­ script publicity, 500 years of Gutenberg Galaxy,
and now-what? The 'sapiens' in Homo Sapiens
is the sixth sense that gives meaning to the five already known.