Thinking about the future

SWP is one step in a study that I am interested in. I think it might fit in with the idea of "the Internet of Things" that people are talking about right now, but it's a little bit more specific. The world itself, the buildings and streets are still not technological. Social networks and social media has been able to in a sense harmonize socializing and technology. Physical locations can also be augmented or complimented in a way; become more connected, perhaps not to other locations, or to other people, but to the past, to other forms of expression (say poetry or art), and most importantly meaning or at least correlation.

Side Walk Poetry is one step towards this goal. The intermingling of language and space, I think, could bring something new and interesting to the table. The image of the lonely philosopher toiling away in his room dark room is what I commonly associate with creative writing. A far more interesting picture is the writer who draws from his surroundings, and works as a conduit for reality and his context.

Culturally speaking, it seems to me that we are moving away from this Newtonian world view of discrete actors, to a more reflexive view in which just as a quantum particle is seen by you, you are in a sense seen by it. In this way, the connectivity of social media is a literal surface manifestation of this deeper change. More on this later.

To conclude, I am for:
-Interdisciplinary collaboration
-Interpersonal collaboration

I am against:
-Every man for himself
-Anything without context

-PP