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#108: Grids, Ladders & Malls
#108: Grids, Ladders & Malls
If the ‘90s internet was a weird, largely unproductive place where you escaped from reality, today’s internet is where much of reality happens, and meatspace is where you escape from it. It barely even makes sense anymore to refer to “the internet” as an alternate domain. We’re all basically online all the time, passively if not actively.
·kneelingbus.substack.com·
#108: Grids, Ladders & Malls
Wormholes | Kneeling Bus
Wormholes | Kneeling Bus
Instead of space, there are numbers representing flows, such as how long it takes to drive to work or the number of bars one’s cell phone gets at a certain location. Wormholes exist at every scale, from airports to freeway exits to the Redbox outside the supermarket, and determine a lot about life in these suburban environments, shortening distances between people, goods, and information and surreptitiously rearranging the city as well as the globe.
·kneelingbus.net·
Wormholes | Kneeling Bus
#83: At Home [They’re] a Tourist
#83: At Home [They’re] a Tourist
In 2006, Senator Ted Stevens infamously described the internet as a “series of tubes,” for which he was ridiculed, but his statement has aged well as a metaphor if not a literal description: a visual reminder of the wormholes we’re teleporting through to reach one another, the digital bridges and tunnels — the infrastructure we arrived by.
·medium.com·
#83: At Home [They’re] a Tourist