Placeless but permanently connected

Interesting thought from smartspace via wireless watch

Ramo pointed out that he could very well meet the same people he knows through business in several locations around the planet in a short time. Again, I have experienced this a lot in the past year, meeting with the same project team in five countries on three continents. While he says that, with high PV, people seldom fix meaningful relationships with locations and experiences, more and more now social relationships become placeless. More often than not now, I only use the remnants of a "physical" address, someone's mobile number, when I know I am near them--near enough to need to coordinate meeting. But in those long spells where we are all, or some of us, moving, we remain connected and often experiencing each other's movement via various social media or communications channels.

I may be at home for a few weeks, but a friend traveling to the World Cup, or another city near him in Croatia, often shares that travel with me, and we are connected through three different channels: e-mail, IM and Flickr. Likewise, while I don't see the people I work with and for very often, I do often see more "experiential" parts of their lives--inside their apartments, conferences they have attended, food they eat--on a more frequently updated basis than my nearest relatives. So, while we are all increasingly placeless, our social connections remain both constant and constantly updated.

It is certainly something I have thought about as I have travelled and also believe that for many of us – not all – that oour communities of friends and colleagues are spread globally, connected via email or IM or SMS of mobile voice, skype whatever.

As we say, we are a we species by design. Time becomes compressed or expanded. Ideas are no longer tied by time or geography. So information flows are constant amd rich.

Smart space reference also an IBM thought called social translucence in the context of having a mobile social presence. Nice.

social translucence is the idea that we should make some (but not all) cues about the presence and activity of users of digital systems available to one another.

What about a virtual version for secondlife?

Comments

[karemillen]

The new brand of clothes are nothing like the old one. Right now, almost everything is done in different countries and then imported to the United States to be sold to consumers.

[Lisa Strutton]

Great post, thank you very much

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