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	The term Heavy Modernity is used to describe a form of modernity tied to physical objects and expensive development. Whereas heavy  modernity  is  rooted  to  place, mass  and  size, light modernity  is  rooted  to  'lightness'  and  the  transcendence  of time  and  space,  or  the  physical  self.		The term Heavy Modernity is used to describe a form of modernity tied to physical objects and expensive development. Whereas heavy  modernity  is  rooted  to  place, mass  and  size, light modernity  is  rooted  to  'lightness'  and  the  transcendence  of time  and  space,  or  the  physical  self.

	~~===Heavy Modernity and Light Communication===~~
	Bauman's  analysis  of  heavy  and  light  modernity  can  be  used  to  explain  the  allure  of  the  cell phone. Cell  phone  users  are  able to  transcend  the  physical  boundaries  of  heavy  modernity  because  they've  left  part  of  their  bodies  behind  and  transferred  to "light  modernity"  while  in  "heavy  modernity". <ref>Bauman, Zygmunt, [[Liquid Modernity]]. Polity Press, 2000. Pg. 114.</ref>  The  light  modern  state  of  the  cell  phone  helps  them  to  transcend  the  heaviness  that  their  body  had  taken  on  when  introduced  to  the  "heavily  modern" state.		Bauman's  analysis  of  heavy  and  light  modernity  can  be  used  to  explain  the  allure  of  the  cell phone. Cell  phone  users  are  able to  transcend  the  physical  boundaries  of  heavy  modernity  because  they've  left  part  of  their  bodies  behind  and  transferred  to "light  modernity"  while  in  "heavy  modernity". <ref>Bauman, Zygmunt, [[Liquid Modernity]]. Polity Press, 2000. Pg. 114.</ref>  The  light  modern  state  of  the  cell  phone  helps  them  to  transcend  the  heaviness  that  their  body  had  taken  on  when  introduced  to  the  "heavily  modern" state.

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	===Definition===		===Definition===
	The term Heavy Modernity is used to describe a form of modernity tied to physical objects and expensive development. Whereas heavy  modernity  is  rooted  to  place, mass  and  size, light modernity  is  rooted  to  'lightness'  and  the  transcendence  of time  and  space,  or  the  physical  self.		The term Heavy Modernity is used to describe a form of modernity tied to physical objects and expensive development. Whereas heavy  modernity  is  rooted  to  place, mass  and  size, light modernity  is  rooted  to  'lightness'  and  the  transcendence  of time  and  space,  or  the  physical  self.

	===Heavy Modernity and Light Communication===		===Heavy Modernity and Light Communication===
	Bauman's  analysis  of  heavy  and  light  modernity  can  be  used  to  explain  the  allure  of  the  cell phone. Cell  phone  users  are  able to  transcend  the  physical  boundaries  of  heavy  modernity  because  they've  left  part  of  their  bodies  behind  and  transferred  to "light  modernity"  while  in  "heavy  modernity". <ref>Bauman, Zygmunt, [[Liquid Modernity]]. 2000. Pg. 114)</ref>  The  light  modern  state  of  the  cell  phone  helps  them  to  transcend  the  heaviness  that  their  body  had  taken  on  when  introduced  to  the  "heavily  modern" state.		Bauman's  analysis  of  heavy  and  light  modernity  can  be  used  to  explain  the  allure  of  the  cell phone. Cell  phone  users  are  able to  transcend  the  physical  boundaries  of  heavy  modernity  because  they've  left  part  of  their  bodies  behind  and  transferred  to "light  modernity"  while  in  "heavy  modernity". <ref>Bauman, Zygmunt, [[Liquid Modernity]]. Polity Press, 2000. Pg. 114.</ref>  The  light  modern  state  of  the  cell  phone  helps  them  to  transcend  the  heaviness  that  their  body  had  taken  on  when  introduced  to  the  "heavily  modern" state.

	Modern  information,  or  "light  information"  is  only  accessible  by  hybrids, or  those  who  are  capable  of  liminally  transforming  into  technosocial  hybrids  or  "light industrial"  objects. For example, "Fordism was self-conscious of modern society in its 'heavy', 'bulky', or 'immobile' and 'rooted', 'solid' phase. At that stage in their joint history, capital, management and labour were all, for better or worse, doomed to stay in one company for a long time to come, perhaps for ever - tied down by the combination of huge factory buildings, heavy machinery and massive labor forces."<ref>Bauman, Zygmunt, [[Liquid Modernity]]. Polity Press, 2000. Pg. 58.</ref>		Modern  information,  or  "light  information"  is  only  accessible  by  hybrids, or  those  who  are  capable  of  liminally  transforming  into  technosocial  hybrids  or  "light industrial"  objects. For example, "Fordism was self-conscious of modern society in its 'heavy', 'bulky', or 'immobile' and 'rooted', 'solid' phase. At that stage in their joint history, capital, management and labour were all, for better or worse, doomed to stay in one company for a long time to come, perhaps for ever - tied down by the combination of huge factory buildings, heavy machinery and massive labor forces."<ref>Bauman, Zygmunt, [[Liquid Modernity]]. Polity Press, 2000. Pg. 58.</ref>
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	===Heavy Modernity and Light Communication===		===Heavy Modernity and Light Communication===
	Bauman's  analysis  of  heavy  and  light  modernity  can  be  used  to  explain  the  allure  of  the  cell phone. Cell  phone  users  are  able to  transcend  the  physical  boundaries  of  heavy  modernity  because  they've  left  part  of  their  bodies  behind  and  transferred  ~~to '~~light  modernity'  while  in  'heavy  modernity'. <ref>Bauman, Zygmunt, [[Liquid Modernity]]. 2000. Pg. 114)</ref>  The  light  modern  state  of  the  cell  phone  helps  them  to  transcend  the  heaviness  that  their  body  had  taken  on  when  introduced  to  the  'heavily  modern'  state.		Bauman's  analysis  of  heavy  and  light  modernity  can  be  used  to  explain  the  allure  of  the  cell phone. Cell  phone  users  are  able to  transcend  the  physical  boundaries  of  heavy  modernity  because  they've  left  part  of  their  bodies  behind  and  transferred  to "light  modernity"  while  in  "heavy  modernity". <ref>Bauman, Zygmunt, [[Liquid Modernity]]. 2000. Pg. 114)</ref>  The  light  modern  state  of  the  cell  phone  helps  them  to  transcend  the  heaviness  that  their  body  had  taken  on  when  introduced  to  the  "heavily  modern" state.

	Modern  information, ~~or  ‘light  information’~~  is  only  accessible  by  hybrids, or  those  who  are  capable  of  liminally  transforming  into  technosocial  hybrids  or  ~~‘light industrial’~~  objects. For example, "Fordism was self-conscious of modern society in its 'heavy', 'bulky', or 'immobile' and 'rooted', 'solid' phase. At that stage in their joint history, capital, management and labour were all, for better or worse, doomed to stay in one company for a long time to come, perhaps for ever - tied down by the combination of huge factory buildings, heavy machinery and massive labor forces.<ref>Bauman, Zygmunt, [[Liquid Modernity]]. Polity Press, 2000. Pg. 58.</ref>		Modern  information,  or  "light  information"  is  only  accessible  by  hybrids, or  those  who  are  capable  of  liminally  transforming  into  technosocial  hybrids  or  "light industrial"  objects. For example, "Fordism was self-conscious of modern society in its 'heavy', 'bulky', or 'immobile' and 'rooted', 'solid' phase. At that stage in their joint history, capital, management and labour were all, for better or worse, doomed to stay in one company for a long time to come, perhaps for ever - tied down by the combination of huge factory buildings, heavy machinery and massive labor forces."<ref>Bauman, Zygmunt, [[Liquid Modernity]]. Polity Press, 2000. Pg. 58.</ref>

	==References==		==References==

Caseorganic at 00:35, 27 June 2011

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	The term Heavy Modernity is used to describe a form of modernity tied to physical objects and expensive development. Whereas heavy  modernity  is  rooted  to  place, mass  and  size, light modernity  is  rooted  to  'lightness'  and  the  transcendence  of time  and  space,  or  the  physical  self.		The term Heavy Modernity is used to describe a form of modernity tied to physical objects and expensive development. Whereas heavy  modernity  is  rooted  to  place, mass  and  size, light modernity  is  rooted  to  'lightness'  and  the  transcendence  of time  and  space,  or  the  physical  self.

			===Heavy Modernity and Light Communication===
	Bauman's  analysis  of  heavy  and  light  modernity  can  be  used  to  explain  the  allure  of  the  cell phone. Cell  phone  users  are  able to  transcend  the  physical  boundaries  of  heavy  modernity  because  they've  left  part  of  their  bodies  behind  and  transferred  to 'light  modernity'  while  in  'heavy  modernity'. <ref>Bauman, Zygmunt, [[Liquid Modernity]]. 2000. Pg. 114)</ref>  The  light  modern  state  of  the  cell  phone  helps  them  to  transcend  the  heaviness  that  their  body  had  taken  on  when  introduced  to  the  'heavily  modern'  state.		Bauman's  analysis  of  heavy  and  light  modernity  can  be  used  to  explain  the  allure  of  the  cell phone. Cell  phone  users  are  able to  transcend  the  physical  boundaries  of  heavy  modernity  because  they've  left  part  of  their  bodies  behind  and  transferred  to 'light  modernity'  while  in  'heavy  modernity'. <ref>Bauman, Zygmunt, [[Liquid Modernity]]. 2000. Pg. 114)</ref>  The  light  modern  state  of  the  cell  phone  helps  them  to  transcend  the  heaviness  that  their  body  had  taken  on  when  introduced  to  the  'heavily  modern'  state.

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	The term Heavy Modernity is used to describe a form of modernity tied to physical objects and expensive development. Whereas heavy  modernity  is  rooted  to  place, mass  and  size, light modernity  is  rooted  to  'lightness'  and  the  transcendence  of time  and  space,  or  the  physical  self.		The term Heavy Modernity is used to describe a form of modernity tied to physical objects and expensive development. Whereas heavy  modernity  is  rooted  to  place, mass  and  size, light modernity  is  rooted  to  'lightness'  and  the  transcendence  of time  and  space,  or  the  physical  self.

	Bauman's  analysis  of  heavy  and  light  modernity  can  be  used  to  explain  the  allure  of  the  cell phone. Cell  phone  users  are  able to  transcend  the  physical  boundaries  of  heavy  modernity  because  they've  left  part  of  their  bodies  behind  and  transferred  to 'light  modernity'  while  in  'heavy  modernity'. <ref>~~(Bauman 2000:~~114)</ref>  The  light  modern  state  of  the  cell  phone  ~~helps them~~  to  transcend  the  heaviness  that  their  body  had  taken  on  when  introduced  to  the  '~~heavily modern~~'  state.		Bauman's  analysis  of  heavy  and  light  modernity  can  be  used  to  explain  the  allure  of  the  cell phone. Cell  phone  users  are  able to  transcend  the  physical  boundaries  of  heavy  modernity  because  they've  left  part  of  their  bodies  behind  and  transferred  to 'light  modernity'  while  in  'heavy  modernity'. <ref>Bauman, Zygmunt, [[Liquid Modernity]]. 2000. Pg. 114)</ref>  The  light  modern  state  of  the  cell  phone  helps  them  to  transcend  the  heaviness  that  their  body  had  taken  on  when  introduced  to  the  'heavily  modern'  state.

	Modern  information, or  ‘light  information’  is  only  accessible  by  hybrids, or  those  who  are  capable  of  liminally  transforming  into  technosocial  hybrids  or  ‘light industrial’  objects. For example, "Fordism was self-conscious of modern society in its 'heavy', 'bulky', or 'immobile' and 'rooted', 'solid' phase. At that stage in their joint history, capital, management and labour were all, for better or worse, doomed to stay in one ~~another's~~ company for a long time to come, perhaps for ever - tied down by the combination of huge factory buildings, heavy machinery and massive labor forces.<ref>Bauman, Zygmunt, "[[Liquid Modernity]]".</ref>		Modern  information, or  ‘light  information’  is  only  accessible  by  hybrids, or  those  who  are  capable  of  liminally  transforming  into  technosocial  hybrids  or  ‘light industrial’  objects. For example, "Fordism was self-conscious of modern society in its 'heavy', 'bulky', or 'immobile' and 'rooted', 'solid' phase. At that stage in their joint history, capital, management and labour were all, for better or worse, doomed to stay in one company for a long time to come, perhaps for ever - tied down by the combination of huge factory buildings, heavy machinery and massive labor forces.<ref>Bauman, Zygmunt, [[Liquid Modernity]]. Polity Press, 2000. Pg. 58.</ref>

	==References==		==References==

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 Bauman's  analysis  of  heavy  and  light  modernity  can  be  used  to  explain  the  allure  of  the  cell phone. Cell  phone  users  are  able to  transcend  the  physical  boundaries  of  heavy  modernity  because  they've  left  part  of  their  bodies  behind  and  transferred  to 'light  modernity'  while  in  'heavy  modernity'. <ref>(Bauman 2000:114)</ref>  The  light  modern  state  of  the  cell  phone  helps them  to  transcend  the  heaviness  that  their  body  had  taken  on  when  introduced  to  the  'heavily modern'  state.
-Modern  information, or  ‘light  information’  is  only  accessible  by  hybrids, or  those  who  are  capable  of  liminally  transforming  into  technosocial  hybrids  or  ‘light industrial’  objects.
+Modern  information, or  ‘light  information’  is  only  accessible  by  hybrids, or  those  who  are  capable  of  liminally  transforming  into  technosocial  hybrids  or  ‘light industrial’  objects. For example, "Fordism was self-conscious of modern society in its 'heavy', 'bulky', or 'immobile' and 'rooted', 'solid' phase. At that stage in their joint history, capital, management and labour were all, for better or worse, doomed to stay in one another's company for a long time to come, perhaps for ever - tied down by the combination of huge factory buildings, heavy machinery and massive labor forces.<ref>Bauman, Zygmunt, "[[Liquid Modernity]]".</ref>
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Caseorganic at 15:42, 1 April 2011

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	~~"Fordism was self-consious~~ of ~~modern society in it's 'eavy', 'bulky', or 'immobile'~~ and ~~'rooted', 'solid' phase~~. ~~At that stage in their joint history~~, ~~capital~~, ~~management and labour were all, for better or worse, doomed to stay in one another~~'~~s comapny for a long time to come, perhaps for ever - tied down by the combination of huge factory buildings~~, ~~heavy machinery and massive labour forces~~. ~~[[Liquid Modernity]]~~		===Definition===
			The term Heavy Modernity is used to describe a form of modernity tied to physical objects and expensive development. Whereas heavy  modernity  is  rooted  to  place, mass  and  size, light modernity  is  rooted  to  'lightness'  and  the  transcendence  of time  and  space,  or  the  physical  self.

			Bauman's  analysis  of  heavy  and  light  modernity  can  be  used  to  explain  the  allure  of  the  cell phone. Cell  phone  users  are  able to  transcend  the  physical  boundaries  of  heavy  modernity  because  they've  left  part  of  their  bodies  behind  and  transferred  to 'light  modernity'  while  in  'heavy  modernity'. <ref>(Bauman 2000:114)</ref>  The  light  modern  state  of  the  cell  phone  helps them  to  transcend  the  heaviness  that  their  body  had  taken  on  when  introduced  to  the  'heavily modern'  state.

			Modern  information, or  ‘light  information’  is  only  accessible  by  hybrids, or  those  who  are  capable  of  liminally  transforming  into  technosocial  hybrids  or  ‘light industrial’  objects.

			"Fordism was self-consious of modern society in it's 'eavy', 'bulky', or 'immobile' and 'rooted', 'solid' phase. At that stage in their joint history, capital, management and labour were all, for better or worse, doomed to stay in one another's comapny for a long time to come, perhaps for ever - tied down by the combination of huge factory buildings, heavy machinery and massive labour forces.<ref>Bauman, Zygmunt, "[[Liquid Modernity]]".</ref>

			===Example===
	Amazon.com has a negative operating cycle:		Amazon.com has a negative operating cycle:

	Amazon turn it's inventory every 20 days		Amazon turn it's inventory every 20 days

	Best buy turns every 74 days. Amazons orbit is shorter. It's closer to the sun		Best buy turns every 74 days. Amazons orbit is shorter. It's closer to the sun.

	Day 0, Order product		Day 0, Order product
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	*People understand how cash float works and design for that.		*People understand how cash float works and design for that.
	*The interest they can generate on that alone is a profit. So they can sell products cheaper than mac.		*The interest they can generate on that alone is a profit. So they can sell products cheaper than mac.
	*Cheaper than what they buy them for.		*Cheaper than what they buy them for.<ref>Lecture from lecture "Revealing Design Treasures from The Amazon" by [[Jared Spool]]. Portland, Oregon. May 19, 2010.</ref>

	~~Source:~~ [[Jared Spool]]

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"Fordism was self-consious of modern society in it's 'eavy', 'bulky', or 'immobile' and 'rooted', 'solid' phase. At that stage in their joint history, capital, management and labour were all, for better or worse, doomed to stay in one another's comapny for a long time to come, perhaps for ever - tied down by the combination of huge factory buildings, heavy machinery and massive labour forces. [[Liquid Modernity]]

Amazon.com has a negative operating cycle:

Amazon turn it's inventory every 20 days

Best buy turns every 74 days. Amazons orbit is shorter. It's closer to the sun

Day 0, Order product
*Product paid for day 44
*Customer buys 74
*Cash debt for 45 days.
*Short term credit is needed during this time

How does amazon do it?
*Order product day zero
*Product paid for on day 44
*Customer buys day 20
*Customer pays 22

Cash float for 22 days
*People understand how cash float works and design for that.
*The interest they can generate on that alone is a profit. So they can sell products cheaper than mac.
*Cheaper than what they buy them for.

Source: [[Jared Spool]]