{"id":2068,"date":"2008-01-09T02:54:01","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T06:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2008\/01\/09\/mixing-realities\/"},"modified":"2017-08-18T18:02:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T18:02:37","slug":"mixing-realities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2008\/01\/09\/mixing-realities\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixing Realities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/julianbleecker\/2178603350\/\" title=\"20080106_Sun_160125 by JulianBleeckr, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2154\/2178603350_5404f28845.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"20080106_Sun_160125\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Human Frogger<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Can I imagine an interface consisting of computational elements, digital semantics, networks that bridge and connect social elements that do not consist of screens and keys? Can the imagination of digital kids imagine a different set of interaction rituals that are not just about touching little plastic squares and staring at glowing, power-hungry screens? Or is it just inconceivable that digital kids could know anything else \u2014\u00a0the ones who have only ever known millions of colors and 1280&#215;800 and learned to touch-type when they were 4. Can human-scale time, physical movement through urban paths, suburban cul-de-sacs or backcountry trails contain elements of possibility for digital experiences that are not just the hackneyed PDA\/GPS\/GSM tour guide blindly explicating the relevance of this or that locale? What do you even call that, when all the possibility for anything new has been bled out from all the idioms surrounding computation? Does anyone else think it&#8217;s positively moronic and fully lacking in any foresight that &#8220;mobile computers&#8221; are just little, battery draining desktop computers?? I heard of a project meant to research mobile computing that was precisely a mindless projects to get mobile phones handle advertising presentation technologies. I mean..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human Frogger Can I imagine an interface consisting of computational elements, digital semantics, networks that bridge and connect social elements that do not consist of screens and keys? 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