Monthly Archives: January 2023

Map rooms

The map room is a physical room-size wiki for collaboration from the 1950s https://interconnected.org/home/2023/01/20/map_room

It’s a mixed reality space. It needs the “space” part because it relies on embodiment; as the essay says, it matters where you are, what you’re focused on, what’s in your peripheral vision, what the others around you are looking at.

Seems like a killer app for HoloLens.

Governance modelled on the Cambrian explosion

How to deal with complexity?  What’s the right model for institutions beyond local/national?  Why doesn’t the corporate model work in this domain?

This paper pulls from computation and social theory to point loosely to new ways of thinking about the world that might be useful in solving the problems we can clearly see.  One of those cross-discipline things where each illuminates the other.

Source: The Internet Transition