The "Next Big Thing" is a Room | Phenomenal World

A humane dynamic medium embraces the countless

ways in which human beings use their minds and bodies,

instead of cramming people into a tiny box of pixels.

One guest, after spending time at Dynamicland, held up

his smartphone and shouted, “This thing is a prison!”

These projects, Victor says, are just “nibbles around the edges” of his larger obsession: how the media in which we choose to represent our ideas shape (and too often, limit) what ideas we can have. “We have these things called computers, and we’re basically just using them as really fast paper emulators,” he says. “With the invention of the printi... See more

When you try to make something that solves everything, you obsess over questions of power: how to make something that is omnipotent and everlasting. But when you make something that does one thing well, the questions are much more personal: does it solve my problem? and for how long? and who for? and where will it push the space around it? I want t... See more