Clive Thompson wrote about the “Future of the Web” for WIRED.com and includes a choice quote from yours truly.
The crux of the piece is this:
The whole reason the web revolutionized the world was that it rendered geography irrelevant. People connected worldwide based not on location but on their common interests: Model-train collectors and free-speech activists and Britney Spears fans could swarm onto the discussion boards and blogs, from Chicago to Tehran. By severing the link between location and geography, the internet turned everything upside down.
Now mobile phones are inverting everything again, in the other direction — because your location becomes most important thing about you.
Then there’s my zinger.
“It’s like this form of Terminator vision,” jokes Socialight founder Dan Melinger, whose app is set to launch soon on the iPhone. He thinks that as more and more people tag the real world, it will create a sort of parallel, invisible internet of data floating over our everyday lives.
“You can figure out the mood of a place by searching for all notes in an area,” Melinger adds. What types of music do people listen to in this neighborhood? What do they argue about?
I’m still patiently waiting for my retinal implants.
Read the whole post here.
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