MargaretC
@margaretc
MargaretC
@margaretc
We don't necessarily need to constantly interact with people “around” us on the web. The sensation of being in the quiet companionship of someone else, like reading next to them in a cafe, is what we're missing. The sense of ambiently sharing space – of being co-present – while engaged in other activities is a staple of shared public spaces that we
... See more"it's ironic that the world always asks for everything new and original and at the same time rejects anything that does not follow common patterns or rules"
of the beauties of place is that it has the ability to imprint itself upon us in an instant. Many will have known that immediate, electrifying symmetry upon arriving somewhere that seems to fit so perfectly with your life as to be predetermined, the place you were always meant to find.
We need to think more about mining our own output to extract patterns that turn our raw personal data stream into predictive, actionable information.