All the World’s an Electronic Stage – Rediscovering McLuhan

I was thinking about the migration of personal technology away from machines and towards mobile “appliances,” which got me to thinking about the nature of the applications that have quickly followed in the wake of the mobile jetski; Twitter, Loopt, Kyte, etc.
I had already been thinking a lot about the “world as gameboard” – about [...]

Experiments in Social Physics

I recently finished a book entitled “The Social Atom” by physicist Mark Buchanan. In the book, he lays out the case for a science of social behavior that casts off the old reason-centric model for one that more closely maps to recent scientific discoveries.
The term he uses, “social physics” seems to have gained some foothold [...]

pARTy/SCIENCE

To be human is to be at once divided and united. As we grow more interdependent, we find ourselves thrown together by the commonality of our circumstances, but still separated by the individuality of our desires.
On one hand, we are airborne angels of the science fiction future, and on the other, steaming mammals trapped in [...]