Comments on: Liveblogging From State of Play, NYC http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2009/06/19/liveblogging-from-state-of-play-nyc/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:26:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Timothy Burke http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2009/06/19/liveblogging-from-state-of-play-nyc/comment-page-1/#comment-6711 Timothy Burke Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:07:44 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=876#comment-6711 See, I'm not convinced. There have been attempts to build 3-D desktops, for example, and they're interesting but in certain ways frustrating. Space is natural to us, but it also has among other things a temporality all its own. E.g., traversing space takes time. A spatial workplace changes the temporality of how you work in some ways. If I'm looking for six resources that don't have spatiality (documents in a folder, for example) that's different than pulling six books from different shelves. In one sense, the shelves feel 'natural' but they're also an impediment. Technologies transform the expression of the natural. Our minds are not readily adapted to moving rapidly using vehicles while our bodies remain still, either, but that doesn't mean that there's an urgent need to reconcile what our minds work well with and what vehicular transport accomplishes, except to ease or ameliorate the disorienting effects that such travel has on our vision, etc. See, I’m not convinced. There have been attempts to build 3-D desktops, for example, and they’re interesting but in certain ways frustrating.

Space is natural to us, but it also has among other things a temporality all its own. E.g., traversing space takes time. A spatial workplace changes the temporality of how you work in some ways. If I’m looking for six resources that don’t have spatiality (documents in a folder, for example) that’s different than pulling six books from different shelves. In one sense, the shelves feel ‘natural’ but they’re also an impediment. Technologies transform the expression of the natural. Our minds are not readily adapted to moving rapidly using vehicles while our bodies remain still, either, but that doesn’t mean that there’s an urgent need to reconcile what our minds work well with and what vehicular transport accomplishes, except to ease or ameliorate the disorienting effects that such travel has on our vision, etc.

]]> By: Senor_Feesherplein http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2009/06/19/liveblogging-from-state-of-play-nyc/comment-page-1/#comment-6710 Senor_Feesherplein Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:34:19 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=876#comment-6710 As human beings we deal with and move through 3-dimensional spaces better than we do 2D. In fact the few times I have attempted to move through 2 dimensions it has ended messy with weeks of diarrhea and wretched headaches. So why do we spend so much time in 2-D desktops and their corresponding applications? Got me, but the day someone builds a 3-D operating system that is connected to the fat global network I will be the first to illegally download and install it. If this means adding the functions I am using to type on this blog into a 3/D space with an awesome iphone like intuitive touch interface, please give it to me as i wants it. Wouldn't it be nice to walk out of your "house" and into a gaming world which would represent closing microsoft word (your novel thats going on 10 years unfinished) and starting world of warcraft? There is something to be said for the journey to the further journey. Transitions cant not be discounted and I wouldn't mind if the transition from working world to playing world was done in one 3D application. As human beings we deal with and move through 3-dimensional spaces better than we do 2D. In fact the few times I have attempted to move through 2 dimensions it has ended messy with weeks of diarrhea and wretched headaches.

So why do we spend so much time in 2-D desktops and their corresponding applications? Got me, but the day someone builds a 3-D operating system that is connected to the fat global network I will be the first to illegally download and install it.

If this means adding the functions I am using to type on this blog into a 3/D space with an awesome iphone like intuitive touch interface, please give it to me as i wants it.

Wouldn’t it be nice to walk out of your “house” and into a gaming world which would represent closing microsoft word (your novel thats going on 10 years unfinished) and starting world of warcraft?

There is something to be said for the journey to the further journey. Transitions cant not be discounted and I wouldn’t mind if the transition from working world to playing world was done in one 3D application.

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