IN THE AGE OF REAL-TIME
The complex, social, and serendipitous learning offered via the Web
August 2009
Teemu Arina
tarina.blogging.fi tar1na

Ours is a brand-new world of allatonceness.
We can no longer build
serially, block-by-block,
step-by-step
...because instant communication insures that all
factors of the environment and of experience
co-exist in a state of active interplay."
– Marshall McLuhan (1967)

FRACTAL LEARNING

Pattern Recognition
“Information overload is an opportunity for
pattern recognition” – Marshall McLuhan
Image: jbum

TV > MOBILE HEAD
Image: Judy Breck

INTERNET?

INTERNET PROVIDES
Independence of...

Time > No-time

Space > No-Space

Schizophrenics:
No Sense of Time
and Space

Instant communication insures that all factors of
the environment [SPACE] and of experience [TIME]
co-exist in a state of active interplay.
– Marshall McLuhan (1967)

TIME

Time = Change
Linear Complicated Complex
Known Knowable Perceive and adapt

< Mechanic Age of Speed
> Digital Age of Real-time

The web is transitioning from mere interactivity to a more
dynamic, real-time web where read-write functions are
heading towards balanced synchronicity.
The real-time web is the next logical step in
the Internet’s evolution.
– OM Malik, Giga OM (2009)

From Pages to Streams

FROM COLLECTING

TO PERCEIVING
FLOWS OF PATTERNS

FROM SEQUENTIAL
MODELS

TO SERENDIPITY

SPACE

Digital + Analog as a Double Helix
Digital
aNAlog

Digital + Analog as a Double Helix
DIGITAL
D’N’A
ANALOG
DOUBLE HELIX

Digital+Analog at the Physical Space

THE SIXTH SENSE
colored
caps
camera
projector
phone mirror
Ref: MIT Media Lab

Ref: MIT Media Lab

Magic Wands
What do you call a h
andheld interface fo
real, actual objects? r
"A wand."
– Bruce Sterling

Ref: Microsoft

ONE MACHINE
Technology as an extension of man.
Man as an extension of technology.

"Time and space are modes by
which we think and not
conditions in which we live"
Albert Einstein

"It is the framework which changes
with each new technology and not
just the picture within the frame."
Marshall McLuhan

Thanks!
Teemu Arina
ceo - dicole ltd.
mail teemu@dicole.com
blog tarina.blogging.fi
web www.dicole.com
“Imagination is more
important than knowledge”
– Albert Einstein
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