Group Chat City
A city is a kind of pattern-amplifying machine: its neighborhoods are a way of measuring and expressing the repeated behavior of larger collectivities—capturing information about group behavior, and sharing that information with the group.” - Emergence - Steven Johnson
I don’t think this is a coincidence. Subcultures flourish in places where a smaller number of people see you every day, but they see you more consistently - letting our creative forms of self-expression more successfully burrow into interesting local possibilities. The city, in contrast, means periodically interrogating your style choices from the ... See more
Alex Danco • Have You Ever Seen a Goth Downtown?
as humans, we take all of the big challenges of real life and the complex social structures of the physical world and they get re-created in weird ways in a digital, social space.
The Atlantic • Lessons From 19 Years in the Metaverse
