Place, Space, and Time
John M. Jordan · 2012
As one's communications capability increases, as measured by technical specifications if not necessarily emotional ones, the need to be physically located in a certain place to do a job, support a social movement, or complete a business transaction is becoming less of an absolute constraint. Mobile phones, cloud computing, and other tools allow people and resources to be organized without physical contact; this might be called the emerging domain of space, as in “cyber.” The fluidity of place, space, and time has far-reaching implications for getting work done, for entrepreneurial opportunity, and for personal identity. As with so many other innovations, the technologists who are capable of writing code and designing and building breakthrough devices have little sense of what those innovations will mean.