Comments on: Getting beyond hyperlocal http://urbanomnibus.net/2009/08/getting-beyond-hyperlocal/ Exploring the culture of citymaking Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:28:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dan http://urbanomnibus.net/2009/08/getting-beyond-hyperlocal/comment-page-1/#comment-2541 Dan Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:21:08 +0000 http://urbanomnibus.net/?p=8569#comment-2541 I think we're at the point when it would be great if everyone started thinking this way, especially with regard to how they use the web--and also how it uses them. But it's probably at least a year or two (at the earliest) before a massive shift in awareness occurs, isn't it? My guess is that will happen along with, if not because of, the official debut of microlocal advertising which should kill off a lot more of the old news industry and make everyone realize politics, marketing, business, and every kind of transaction between public-commerce-government has changed. I'm also pretty sure some of those changes will be challenging, problematic, and unhappy for a lot of people. I wonder too about the "Dead Zones" as revealed by outside.in and everyblock as places where nothing happens--or nothing good. Perhaps there is some risk of the cost of being connected staying too high, and the real digital divide has yet to emerge. Maybe Moore's Law will suddenly be exposed as subject to a deeper law about consumer spending and credit debt in "developed nations"--or those that have exported all their low-tech jobs and have a massive "working poor" population. As those folks pay down bailouts and the retirement of a generation whose size will outstrip their capacity to support it, will it be the mobile device economy that saves them? I think we’re at the point when it would be great if everyone started thinking this way, especially with regard to how they use the web–and also how it uses them. But it’s probably at least a year or two (at the earliest) before a massive shift in awareness occurs, isn’t it?

My guess is that will happen along with, if not because of, the official debut of microlocal advertising which should kill off a lot more of the old news industry and make everyone realize politics, marketing, business, and every kind of transaction between public-commerce-government has changed. I’m also pretty sure some of those changes will be challenging, problematic, and unhappy for a lot of people.

I wonder too about the “Dead Zones” as revealed by outside.in and everyblock as places where nothing happens–or nothing good. Perhaps there is some risk of the cost of being connected staying too high, and the real digital divide has yet to emerge. Maybe Moore’s Law will suddenly be exposed as subject to a deeper law about consumer spending and credit debt in “developed nations”–or those that have exported all their low-tech jobs and have a massive “working poor” population. As those folks pay down bailouts and the retirement of a generation whose size will outstrip their capacity to support it, will it be the mobile device economy that saves them?

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