SOFTWARE IS REORGANIZING THE WORLD it all goes back to Feridoun Esfandiaries Telespheres. I wished he was alive to read this piece by Sonal Chokshi ... wired/2013/11/software-is-reorganizing-the-world-and-cloud-formations-could-lead-to-physical-nations/all/1 Every square foot of earth is already spoken for by one (or more) nation states, every physical frontier long since closed. With our bodies hemmed in, our minds have only the cloud — and it is the cloud that has become the destination for an extraordinary mental exodus. Hundreds of millions of people have now migrated to the cloud, spending hours per day working, playing, chatting, and laughing in real-time HD resolution with people thousands of miles away … without knowing their next-door neighbors. An infinity of subcultures outside the mainstream now blossoms on the Internet — vegans, body modifiers, CrossFitters, Wiccans, DIYers, Pinners, and support groups of all forms. Millions of people are finding their true peers in the cloud, a remedy for the isolation imposed by the anonymous apartment complex or the remote rural location. BUT! Cloud formations are starting to take physical shape in the form of long-term friendly communities that are geographically colocated, like Campus, Embassy Network, and the Rainbow Mansion. In some ways this isn’t anything new — the twin ideas of co-living in the same house or co-housing with separate houses in a shared community have been around in Denmark since the 1960s and the U.S. since the 1860s. What is new is the ease of finding compatible peers via web search, online forums, and social networks. And so the concept is spreading around the world, with hundreds of co-living and co-housing locations now accessible through the internet in the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, and across Continental Europe. Bingo. And here you have the seed form of Global Villages. thats better than what we get fed in the rest of the article. But read yourself!
Posted on: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:16:16 +0000