Metaphor: | Mother Earth | Clock/Machine | Information | |
Time: | Cyclical | linear, fixed & objective | Multiple & programmable | |
Organization & Production: | communal & agricultural | national & industrial (fordism) | international & postindustrial (human genome project) | |
Nature of Nature (earth ethic): | living entity, dangerous, & nurturing | orderly, fixed, predictable, & manipulable | re-programmable open to complete reconstruction | |
Material World | alive and inspirited (animism) | inert, dead | manifestation of information (ordered) | |
History: | none/cyclical | fixed & constraining | irrelevant | |
Future: | eternal return | progress via efficiency | simulation | |
Ethic: | thou shalt not | be productive | be creative |