Ok, so more about the internet, web 2.0 thingy. It's completely changed the way I (and many of us) now relate and think about our world. Tim O'Reilly describes it here...
"Web 2.0 is the network as platform, spanning all connected devices...delivering software as a continually-updated service that gets better the more people use it, consuming and remixing data from multiple sources, including individual users, while providing their own data and services in a form that allows remixing by others, creating network effects through an 'architecture of participation,' ... to deliver rich user experiences."
This to me is about a whole new way of participating and re-creating our worlds... participating and designing in improvisational and potentially very engaging and empowering ways...i say 'potential' because for real change it must also translate in the communications of our daily lives, into interactions that do not solely remain computer based experiences or interfaces.The challenge is the creation of these new physical interfaces to match the virtual ones. Making new ways to connect, ways to organize, to share ideas/information in real, day to day ways that don't always involve having access to web technology. And so I've been following an emergent field of neighborhood based learning spaces such as these examples.... The School of Life (http://www.theschooloflife.co.uk) and the Hub (http://the-hub.net). Places where people can come to network, share, learn, create and unorganize themselves...remix and improvise their worlds a little, maybe gaining some little inspiration and power to change their worlds....
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