How do you think digital participation has affected
a) your attention?
b) your sense of space/spatiality?
Digital participation has had a profound effect on our culture's sense of space. The development of thousands of new technological innovations has made this world smaller and smaller as we have become able to be in contact with those halfway across the world from us within a matter of seconds. This has caused the world, once big, mysterious, and imposing, to shrink in our minds. For years prior to this when a person was asked where they were from, they would say the town or city that they were from, now it has become much more common to respond with which state you are from. With the further advancement of these technologies I believe we will soon reach a point where you will simply say the country you are from. Perhaps in just a few generations we will be answering with what planet we are from...
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