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3 Concepts to Understand the Hybrid Age

Generativity • The Structural Property of Capacity for Creation – Noam Chomsky: grammar from few rules – Jonathan Zittrain: capacity for unexpected users/products • Social Systems in Hybrid Age Exhibiting Generativity – Healthcare, education, economy, governance systems begin to exhibit expansive capacity to connect users and enable them to create new values and outputs • Generativity as Value-Neutral Property – Open to all. Potential for egalitarianism or monopolism


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