Reference

Post-Social Glossary

Definitions of the original concepts, frameworks and measures used across Post-Social. Each term should be read in the context of the publication or framework in which it appears.

Memory Continuity: The effective survival of understanding and the accurate transfer of meaning through time.
Human Archive: The living network of people who hold the context, perspective and meaning that records alone cannot preserve.
Memory Pyramid: A four-level model showing that continuity depends on more than access: Key, Story and Identity, Perspective, and Meaning.
Discovery Problem: The risk that preserved material becomes practically lost because nobody knows that it exists, where it is held or why it matters.
Assumption Problem: The false belief that another person already knows the context, significance or location of information that has never been explicitly transferred.
Abundance Problem: The condition in which excessive capture creates so much material that selection, understanding and meaningful retrieval become harder.
Archive Obesity: An accumulation of records that grows faster than the ability to organise, interpret or pass them on.
Semantic Starvation: The loss of meaning that occurs when records survive but the explanation, relationships and human context around them disappear.
Comparison Horizon: The period or baseline against which a person judges whether life, technology or society has improved.
Human Condition Score (HCS): The Post-Social Human Condition Framework's composite editorial score for how effectively an era supported an ordinary person in building a good life.
Life Experience Index (LEI): A companion indicator within the Human Condition Framework describing the lived quality, texture and balance of ordinary life in an era.
SMAK: Source, Method, Assessment and Knowledge: a disciplined framework for deciding when an important conclusion has earned the right to become knowledge.
Manufactured Confidence: A confident conclusion produced without sufficient evidence, verification or acknowledgement of uncertainty.
Post-Social: A human-centred perspective on life beyond continuous feeds, algorithmic performance and the assumption that greater connectivity always produces greater connection.