generativity

The sun-figure's generativity is crucial to the integrity or wholeness of meaning.

Double-Take. Reading De Man and Derrida Writing on Tropes. 2005

The study determined stress-related growth based on "generativity" - the point, usually during mid-life, where a person stops focusing on themselves and begins working to improve future generations and society as a whole.

canada.com Top Stories 2010

Behind dignity therapy is the idea of "generativity," which the study defined as the ability to guide the next generation, and how patients may be comforted knowing they are creating something that will last beyond their death.

'Dignity therapy' gives comfort to dying patients 2011

(In psychiatry this attribute is known as generativity -- a passion to improve the planet for successive generations.)

Why Serial Entrepreneurs Can't Stop 2010

(In psychiatry this attribute is known as generativity -- a passion to improve the planet for successive generations.)

Why Serial Entrepreneurs Can't Stop 2010

(In psychiatry this attribute is known as generativity -- a passion to improve the planet for successive generations.)

Why Serial Entrepreneurs Can't Stop 2010

The key to whether "instrumenting the world" empowers people and changes our lives for the better will be the capacity our systems of instrumentation have for what Jonathan Zittrain in defines as generativity, i.e.: "the system's capacity to produce unanticipated change through unfiltered contributions from broad and varied audiences" (Zittrain, 2008).

UgoTrade Dagan 2009

Proponents of network neutrality cite the Internet above all other considerations as a driver of innovation, or "generativity," to use the term created by law professor Jonathan Zittrain and woven through his book "The Future of the Internet (And How to Stop It)."

Net Neutrality: It All Depends On What You Fear 2010

Proponents of network neutrality cite the Internet above all other considerations as a driver of innovation, or "generativity," to use the term created by law professor Jonathan Zittrain and woven through his book "The Future of the Internet (And How to Stop It)."

Net Neutrality: It All Depends On What You Fear 2010

Plus his book is a must-read; it's convinced me that the term "generativity" ranks up there with "open source" and "networked" as one of the key organizing principles of the new world we are living in.

PdF2008 Update: Zittrain is Coming, and Idea Market is Up 2008