nick

i get that knowledge does not equal experience but sometimes i feel like adults underestimate internet-era young people these kids who’ve had instant access to infinite info since they were like 10 are a whole new species of human https://twitter.com/BI_Haynes/status/1156277851672367104 …

my bf for example has been using Google Earth since he was a kid. he’d spend hours zooming in and out, exploring random places all over the globe. that‘s gotta have a decent impact on how you think about your self 60 years ago, no one had ever even seen a pic of from space!

Have you watched the flick "The Overview Effect" on Youtube? Great short film on just this matter. In fact, this "overview effect" is what is now conflicting with the "point" of "the point-of-view" effect, we might call that.

The Overview Effect represents a serious challenge to the modern ethos (which is perspectival) and is implicated in the current interest in holism and integrality, and probably connected, too, with "the end of the Master Narrative".

thanks for the rec! related: i heard an interesting talk @ribbonfarm camp about the history of the god’s eye view in architectural software. the speaker was trying to figure out how to bring a multi-perspectival ethos to the tools that architects use to design buildings

oooo, who was the speaker? really love this idea. that the gods eye view is unusual / unnatural. needing to see everything and I control it all from above. seeing like a state energy.