Deep places
Institute for the Future
New Geography: Strategies for Deep Place
October 6-7, 2004
“Imagine this: As you move about the physical world, you can access not only what you can see with a naked eye but also multiple layers of previously invisible information-annotations left by friends, colleagues, and complete strangers; data about those who live close by, including their demographic characteristics and political affiliations; crime statistics for the area; traffic accidents and extreme weather incidents that have occurred in the vicinity; information about businesses, their products, their reputations; and much, much more.
This is precisely the physical landscape some of us will be living in by the end of the decade. The infrastructure is evolving rapidly in numerous places around the globe. Wireless location-aware devices, new geospatial software, new global location services, and online geo-data repositories are creating a new world of ‘deep place’ - locations thickly layered with digital information, readily available to those with tools and skills to navigate them.
How will people orient themselves in such deep places? How will they choose focal points in the thick sensory soup of geo-linked information? How will they find friends and colleagues, make decisions, purchase goods, contribute to the world, and tell the stories of their lives? What will matter most to them?”
The event seems directed at business-types, and there is no programme available, but there you have it.
And am I the only one who thinks of thick description when I read “deep place”? (via)