How Digital Has Distorted Our World As details of the National Security Agency’s PRISM program came out – alongside concerns about democracy, freedom, state surveillance and the complicity of corporations — something else was revealed. Digital space gives us access to anything, anywhere. It gives us endless proximity to our emails, photos, and any other data that we’ve handed over to the various corporate clouds that surround us. It means we can be in constant contact with other places regardless of physical coordinates. That’s the beautiful liberation of digital culture These spatial slippages re-order traditional definitions of public and private. The cloud means that even the most intimate details of one’s personal life are everywhere, all the time. The cloud transforms the nature of space. It alters what we understand to be inside and outside, what is public and private. wired/opinion/2013/06/the-real-culprit-behind-prism-design-thinking-yes/
Posted on: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 11:38:36 +0000