Month: March 2020

The Evolution of Connection: Reimagining Technology for Shared Experience

When Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, his vision was a digital space where the entirety of human knowledge could be connected through a central hub, allowing users to access information through interconnected “links.” Wikipedia, one of the most visited websites today, serves as a key realization of that vision, offering a vast collection […]

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Rethinking Communication: A Vision for Augmented Social Cognition

The Shannon-Weaver model of communication stipulates that face-to-face interaction is the most immersive and information-rich mode of communication. Currently, many emerging communications technologies seem to be fixated on approximating a verisimilitude of face-to-face communication. In my view, emulating face-to-face communication should not be the gold standard and benchmark for any new media technology. Why attempt […]

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