Telecommunication Opportunities and Cultural Challenges to a New Dialogue in South Pacific Transregional Domain
The article is devoted to the study of promising opportunities for transforming Oceania into the locus of emerging universal new knowledge culture that will become acclaimed in the coming noospheric telecommunication era. It outlines descriptive differentiation between South Pacific Islander and continental European cognitive regional patterns that have preserved quite distinct worldviews. The author argues that with waning attractiveness of triumphant globalism and rampant unconstraint consumerism new dimensions of “far away” regionalism and globalism will acquire prominence as a not yet tapped universal humanitarian resource for a dignified and purposeful living. Regions of Oceania (Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia) may act as an antidote to habitual ways of living in congested metropolitan conglomerations of the “golden billion”. Though they shall not house rich migrants’ tribes in situ, they may well serve as a personalized precision life paradigm worthy to emulate online in the new telecommunication epoch. This reflects our general human capacity to get involved in productive dialogues.