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
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 morei wish earth was more like a library. ppl speaking in soft voices on the streets everything shared and borrowed.
Becca Btwitter.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.comPeople don’t exist independently of a place. Places bring out who we are.
A park bench allows for a sense of solitude and community at the same time, a simultaneity that’s crucial to life in a city
In Paul Graham’s famous essay Cities and Ambition, there’s this idea that some cities are centers for some type of ambition, and when you come to one of those cities, you can feel the message the city is sending to you. For example, the message that you can feel in New York is “You should be richer,” while Berkeley’s is “You should live better,”... See more
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Sublime’s message: you should slow down and make something wonderful
Nowhere But Here: Femi Adeyemi on the Possibilities for Placemaking over the Airwave — Deem
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The site is also like a home in that it’s a collection of many things which are unified only by the person who collected them. I feel as if someone is giving me a tour of their apartment: I’m looking at the papers on his desk, the notes stuck to his fridge, an album of butterfly photos taken by his brother, and so on. Sure, he probably tidied up... See more