textually.org: Augmented Reality: How Mobile Is Changing Humanity

textually.org: Augmented Reality: How Mobile Is Changing Humanity: "Augmented Reality: How Mobile Is Changing Humanity
Design Observer has published a fascinating two part essay on augmented reality, the warping of space and time, and how mobile is changing humanity.
The contemporary convergence of mobile phone, camera, wireless Internet and satellite communication — the key ingredients of the digital handheld — accelerates the reconstitution of place from real, occupied space to a collage of here and there, past and present. But digital technology’s effects do not only blast us out of place; they also bore us into the sights right in front of us — those in our viewfinder. Our sense of place is augmented by information wired from the World Wide Web.
... What’s remarkable is that by the end of the second millennium, in a time when everyday place was receding further than ever from our short attention spans, technology, as it had almost two centuries earlier, reshuffled our sense of place.
[via Mobile Behavior]
A Sense of Place, A World of Augmented Reality: Part 1
A Sense of Place, A World of Augmented Reality: Part 2
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