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One use of older people in traditional societies is that they often are still effective at producing food.
Another traditional usefulness of older people is that they are capable of babysitting their grandchildren, thereby freeing up their own adult children, the parents of those grandchildren, to go hunting and gathering food for the grandchildren.
Still another traditional value of older people is in making tools, weapons, baskets, pots and textiles.
Older people usually are the leaders of traditional societies, and the people most knowledgeable about politics, medicine, religion, songs and dances.
Finally, older people in traditional societies have a huge significance that would never occur to us in our modern, literate societies, where our sources of information are books and the Internet.
In contrast, in traditional societies without writing, older people are the repositories of information.
Those, then, are the ways in which older people are useful in traditional societies.
Well, what has changed in the status of the elderly today compared to their status in traditional societies?
Perhaps the biggest change for the worse is that our elderly are objectively less useful than in traditional societies.
The slow pace of technological change in traditional societies means that what someone learns there as a child is still useful when that person is old, but the rapid pace of technological change today means that what we learn as children is no longer useful 60 years later.
In short, many traditional societies make better use of their elderly and give their elderly more satisfying lives than we do in modern, big societies.
We can surely do better by learning from the lives of the elderly in traditional societies.
But what's true of the lives of the elderly in traditional societies is true of many other features of traditional societies as well.
There are many obvious respects in which our lives today are far happier than those in small, traditional societies.
To mention just a few examples, our lives are longer, materially much richer, and less plagued by violence than are the lives of people in traditional societies.
But there are also things to be admired about people in traditional societies, and perhaps to be learned from them.
Features of the modern lifestyle predispose us to those diseases, and features of the traditional lifestyle protect us against them.
Those are just some examples of what we can learn from traditional societies.
I hope that you will find it as fascinating to read about traditional societies as I found it to live in those societies.
I was allowed to use even traditional techniques.
But even though, in its current form, in its traditional form, the idea of the soul is still hugely popular, nonetheless we are again reinventing it for the digital age, for example with the idea that you can leave your body behind by uploading your mind, your essence, the real you, onto a computer, and so live on as an avatar in the ether.
It wasn't going to be our traditional residential neighborhoods as we had before, and urban agriculture, while a very productive and successful intervention happening in Detroit, was not the only answer, that what we had to do is look at these areas where we had significant vacancy but still had a significant number of population of what could be new, productive, innovative, and entrepreneurial uses that could stabilize those communities, where still nearly 300,000 residents lived.
In particular, traditional optical character recognition method that can be used for printed manuscripts, they do not work well on the handwritten document.
When they ask for a C.D. or an MP3 version, we just can't make that happen, and the reason is because this isn't a promotional app or a game to promote or accompany the release of a traditional record.
For one half of the people, I put in a brain that's kind of the traditional, calculated robotic brain.
In the Arab region, they brand these attempts as a Western conspiracy to undermine traditional Arab and Islamic values.
Instead of taking a single, high quality image, we could take a videostream of individually noisier frames, but then we could recombine all of those frames together into very high-quality images using sophisticated pixel processing techniques here on the ground, at a cost of one one hundredth a traditional system.
These three intertwined processes have completely annihilated all the traditional bearings of Western societies, with radical consequences for the individual.
In other words, my value was once ensured by submitting myself to the traditional authorities.
In a 21st-century world, which is more global, digitally enabled and transparent, with faster speeds of information flow and innovation, and where nothing big gets done without some kind of a complex matrix, relying on traditional development practices will stunt your growth as a leader.
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