into the limits of the real ¢ Mitchell feels that '~Architects will increasingly confront practical choices between providing for bodily presence and relying on telepresence...eventually they will find new ways to accommodate human needs by recombining transformed fragments of traditional building types in a matrix of digital telecommunication systems and reorganized circulation and transportation patterns ¢" He continues, "...finally, there will be the intimate bits. Just as clothing has traditionally formed a first interface to the physical world, so our personal electronic devices and bodynets will become interfaces between flesh and nervous system and the bitsphere." We will have a "private digital environment--our personal cyberspace." One of Mitchell's section headings is called "Wild West/ Electronic Frontier ¢" That feels right to me. It's a rough and ready world through the glass of the CRT. Yes, the pioneers of yesteryear had it a lot tougher though than we do. If we are flamed in our favorite chat group, we can shut off the computer and salve our burned egos in private comfort. Flaming arrows on the plains weren't ignored so easily. But both the Wild West and the Electronic Frontier are worlds of threats and opportunities, where ambition and
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Tools for change and progress
Bartlett, Andrew
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Association for Computing Machinery – Sep 1, 1996
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