There's a great interview in Rolling Stone with one of my favourite authors of all time, William Gibson (Neuromancer, coiner of the term Cyberspace and his newest Spook Country (which I'm reading now). Here's a quote:
"Ubiquitous computing?
Totally ubiquitous computing. One of the things our grandchildren will find quaintest about us is that we distinguish the digital from the real, the virtual from the real. In the future, that will become literally impossible. The distinction between cyberspace and that which isn't cyberspace is going to be unimaginable. When I wrote Neuromancer in 1984, cyberspace already existed for some people, but they didn't spend all their time there. So cyberspace was there, and we were here. Now cyberspace is here for a lot of us, and there has become any state of relative nonconnectivity. There is where they don't have Wi-Fi.
In a world of superubiquitous computing, you're not gonna know when you're on or when you're off. You're always going to be on, in some sort of blended-reality state. You only think about it when something goes wrong and it goes off. And then it's a drag."
This essentially frames an argument/discussion I've been having for quite a while at where I'm working now. The web is no longer a place to be visited, a languid information ("super") highway akin to route 66 where you stop in for a donut or a soda every few miles at yahoo or ask for directions at Google. I actually bought a copy of a wall sized "Map" of the internet in 1996 which I still have to get framed one day.
The net today is a thing we can only take brief momentary snapshots of, like photos out of a moving vehicle - in fact that's really what widgets are are special cameras which allow us to capture some of the data running around the net into a single, momentary user experience.
The world is moving to a dynamic, context driven, xml & atom feed universe where content is living breathing organic matter.. weird huh that the whole thing was a secret gleam in a few of our eyes just 10 years ago... we were like some sort of weird cult which had found the light.
Now I use my iPhone to photoblog while dining on Mexican in London city center..
weird
"Ubiquitous computing?
Totally ubiquitous computing. One of the things our grandchildren will find quaintest about us is that we distinguish the digital from the real, the virtual from the real. In the future, that will become literally impossible. The distinction between cyberspace and that which isn't cyberspace is going to be unimaginable. When I wrote Neuromancer in 1984, cyberspace already existed for some people, but they didn't spend all their time there. So cyberspace was there, and we were here. Now cyberspace is here for a lot of us, and there has become any state of relative nonconnectivity. There is where they don't have Wi-Fi.
In a world of superubiquitous computing, you're not gonna know when you're on or when you're off. You're always going to be on, in some sort of blended-reality state. You only think about it when something goes wrong and it goes off. And then it's a drag."
This essentially frames an argument/discussion I've been having for quite a while at where I'm working now. The web is no longer a place to be visited, a languid information ("super") highway akin to route 66 where you stop in for a donut or a soda every few miles at yahoo or ask for directions at Google. I actually bought a copy of a wall sized "Map" of the internet in 1996 which I still have to get framed one day.
The net today is a thing we can only take brief momentary snapshots of, like photos out of a moving vehicle - in fact that's really what widgets are are special cameras which allow us to capture some of the data running around the net into a single, momentary user experience.
The world is moving to a dynamic, context driven, xml & atom feed universe where content is living breathing organic matter.. weird huh that the whole thing was a secret gleam in a few of our eyes just 10 years ago... we were like some sort of weird cult which had found the light.
Now I use my iPhone to photoblog while dining on Mexican in London city center..
weird
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not even an ipod.
part of me doesn't want to advance any further, you should have seen how long it took me just to
get a cellphone
hope you are doing well, i'm not on here much these days.
and yes,
im a tiny bit jealous you got to meet Argento