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Friday, January 15, 2010

Jonathan Harris . World Building in a Crazy World .

"The digital world, like the physical world, belongs to all of us, and not only to the companies who currently dominate it.

The digital world is not some magic land that evolves alone. The digital world is composed of the things we build there. Just as architects define the built landscape of a country, digital architects define the built landscape of the web.

Unlike the physical world, the digital world can support a boundless set of worlds within worlds—worlds for every human need. Many human needs are already answered online (though the elegance of the answers can always be improved), but many others are still without good online answers...."

This passage is an excerpt from a series of 'vignettes' by Jonathan Harris, based on a talk given October 27, 2009, at UCLA, as part of the Mobile Media Lecture Series. Well worth the reading time.

Harris is the creator of the gorgeous interactive site:

thewhalehunt.org

& with Sep Kamvar, the equally gorgeous data viz site:

http://wefeelfine.org/

Posted via web from Siobhan O'Flynn's 1001 Tales

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