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The "cloud" is not organized in such a way as the article wishes it to be, to have ecologies to be explored, such that a field guide or niche study is appropria
by fl0wenol 10y ago
The "cloud" is not organized in such a way as the article wishes it to be, to have ecologies to be explored, such that a field guide or niche study is appropriate.
Lots of assumptions required to back the parallels, most of them off-base, and so the article kind of just confuses like urban exploration and eco/techno-tourism as some kind of like 21st Darwinian voyage stuff that will tell us the hidden structures we're creating and unintentionally relying on as a new networked, data-laden society.
At least I think that's what they're getting at.
The linked videos are cool though on their own merits.
- sp332 10y agoThe central sentence is a few paragraphs in: "And again we are searching for the right metaphors and models to guide our investigation." That's what the whole article is about. People are looking for a useful way to describe the masses of new infrastructure, and this article lists some of them. It also calls out past and present ways of looking at the world, for context.