April 2010
7 posts
collective art →
Allowing for strangers on the web to come together and build architecture.
Transparencies →
In a world where communication in all forms is becoming more and more prevalent, company transparency is turning into a mandate. How a firm operates can no longer stay mysterious.
This architecture firm has taken this transparency a step further and actually has a company twitter account for clients and others to read into their daily activities and events.
identity to identities
It is becoming increasingly popular for people in our day and age to reach out to the escapist avenues technology has brought to our society within the last twenty years. In Japan there is a culture of people called “otaku” who are characterized by their extreme passion for anime. This culture is unique in that the people who make up this otaku population actually rarely ever see...
Numbers make up the smarts!
It used to be that most information would pour out from a small elite, and trickle its way down to the masses. Examples of some members of the elite include Britannica, professors, news anchors, etc… For the common man, acquiring facts about the world was rather difficult since information was not readily accessible.
Now the world has changed. Phenomena such as wikipedia, forums, blogs,...
Anonymity in a loud world
Isn’t it crazy how identity is so linked to responsibility? In a virtual world where identities can be concealed, warped, or fabricated, things can happen to extremes that would never happen in the real world. People can be loud, opinionated, bad, crazy, or curious without any inhibition.
So a question to ask is, is this then some odd manifestation of utopia?