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Before unveiling the portrait concerning the information age a similar illustration may help one slip into the point about to be shown.
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Before unveiling the portrait concerning the information age a similar illustration may help one slip into the point about to be shown. This scene puts the world's people back within the well-documented cave allegory written by Plato. That is, in many ways the world's people become the ones who are chained deep within a cave. At the very end of a cave is a fire that burns continually through the days. Yet in between the chained people and the fire is a man-made wall that the people cannot turn around to see as a result of their chains, which allow them only to look out in one sole direction. Along this wall other people walk up and down daily, picking up and dropping off materials. As they do so the fire casts their moving shadows onto the wall before the chained people, who then with nothing else simply interpret...
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