If The Internet Was A Place
if the internet was a physical place, what would we want it to feel like? look like? be like?
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If The Internet Was A Place
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I don’t know if you’ve ever seen or been to the roof of Facebook. The roof is amazingly landscaped — it has native species of plants and these meandering walking paths — and in a way, it’s exactly what I’m talking about in the book. It’s the architecture of thinking, it’s put there to encourage innovation and conversation, but just for employees.
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If you watch television for 8 hours in a row, you might feel that you watched too much television. You would have a feeling that you wanted to get up and go do something else. Smart-phones specifically, unlike any other previous screen, are located on the body and taken everywhere. Without a conscious disconnnection practice, there is no getting up
... See moreAnd yet, in so much modern software today, you’re placed in a drab gray cubicle — anonymized and aggregated until you’re just a daily active user. For minimalism. For simplicity. For scale! But if our hope is to create software with feeling, it means inviting people in to craft it for themselves — to mold it to the contours of their unique lives
... See moreThe Browser Company • Optimizing For Feelings
All those tech-driven foods are still around, but they don’t tempt consumers the way they once did. Instead, the fastest growing categories in the food business are built on an entirely different vocabulary: gourmet, artisan, healthy, organic, nutritious, sustainable, local, homemade.
Ted Gioia • Has the Internet Reached Peak Clickability?
People don’t exist independently of a place. Places bring out who we are.
any digital place evokes certain feelings, emotions, mood
cold? warm? corporate? homely? serious? silly? all of it? none of it?
and all these things are extremely subtle
and each idea can be executed in a myriad of ways
and it's this... See more
eugene, season 2 (work in progress)twitter.comwhat if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation
erin glasstwitter.com