Paradigm Shifts to Postmodern Living (Article in Progress)

                Paradigm Shifts to Postmodern Living

Dr Abercio V Rotor, PhD

Retired professorial lecturer

UST, DLSU-D, SPU-QC, UPHU

ASSIGNMENT: Explain the meaning of each paradigm, and its relevance to your personal life, family, and community.  Make this a school research project and subject of a continuing workshop. Provide appropriate photos and illustrations, musical composition, and choreographic interpretation or background, to enhance your presentation.

1. Age of Plastic

2. Traffic Monster

3. High Rise (Babel Syndrome) 

4. Around the World Cruise

5. Magic of Communication

                Biblical Tower of Babel in our times
6. End of Frontiers

7. Corporate Empires

8. Crisis of the Family

9. Nones (No Religious Affiliation)

Religious "nones" are people who do not identify with any organized religion, choosing categories like The Religiouly Unaffiliated "atheist," "agnostic," or "nothing in particular" on surveys. AI Overview

10. Universal Religion

11. Cyberlife

12. Longevity and Birth Control

13. Concept of Home and Condominium

14. Stateless People (No Citizenship)

15. Genetic Engineering

16. Human Genome Map

17. Libraries at Fingertip

18. Neutral Morality

Moral neutrality means taking a position of non-judgment or abstaining from declaring actions inherently good or bad. 

19. Death of Printed Materials,

20. Rise of Cyberbooks

"Rise of cyberbooks" represents two distinct phenomena: the historical evolution of e-books (originally termed "cyberbooks" in early science fiction), and the simultaneous explosion of cybersecurity and hacking literature driven by modern technological vulnerabilities. Time Magazine AI

21. Unveiling the Unknown through Documentaries

22. Intermarriages and Mélange of Races

23. Racism and Apartheid, A Thing in the Past

24. Question of Copyright and Patent

25. Health and Diseases Trends

26. Natural Evolution Defied

27. Metropolises and Megapolises

28. Urbanization and Suburbanization

29. Exodus from the City

30. Fashion Trends

31. Loss of Privacy

32. Exobiology

Exobiology is the branch of science that studies the possibility, origin, distribution, and evolution of life outside Earth. AI

33. Space Travel

34. Biotechnology

35. Sports' New Game (Post Olympics)

36. Depression and Suicide

37. Death of Cities

38. Back to the Primitive

"Back to the primitive" means returning to a basic, original, or unrefined way of living and thinking, stripped of modern complexities or civilizing influences

39. Literacy Re-defined

40. Third Sex and Society

41. Ancient Plagues - Old and New

42. Global Warming Effects

43. Wildlife Endangered

44. Ecological Migration

45. God in Cyberage

46. Lamarckian Use & Disuse Reviewed

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's principle of use and disuse states that organisms can develop, enlarge, or shrink body parts during their lifetime based on how often they use them, and pass these traits to their offspring. Wikipedia

47. Culinary Art, Eat Out

48. Crematorium, Goodbye Cemetery

49. Time Management

50. Consumerism

Humanoid Robot

51. Instant Syndrome

52. Immortality - Cryonics

53. Drug Abuse

54. Extremism, Fundamentalism

55. Isolationism

56. Aculturism

57. Robotics, Humanoids                          

58. Stem Cell Burgher

59. Artificial Intelligence

60. "Immortal" Food

Certain foods have chemical preservatives to extend their shelf life for a long time, perhaps years. 

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Philippine History in a Capsule

1. Barangay Era (Pre-Spanish Period)

2. Colonial Period

• Spanish colonial period
• American colonial period 
• WWII and Liberation period
• Post-colonial period

3. Age of Nationalism

4. Agrarian and Pre-industrial

5. Industrial

• Balikbayan
• Exodus to the city

6. Millennial and Postmodernism

Acknowledgement with Gratitude: All sources of information and images, AI Overview, Internet, Time Magazine, Britannica, Living with Nature books, others

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