The Super Soap Box

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"Art and technology in public spaces can spark innovation and build stronger communities.

Art, technology, and space can thus become much more than the sum of their parts. They can be used to democratize expression, inviting open creativity, and providing collaboration tools. With the support of sponsors and city governments, interactive art works in public spaces have the ability to inspire, empower, and mobilize a new generation of innovators while strengthening communities and sparking healthy debate.

Imagine a type of virtual city commons or location specific P2P platform: a Napster, MySpace, or Wikipedia for a public space like Central Park where users could find info, meet, collaborate, archive, and trade content, yet do so while being physically present in the Park. This type of situated social media will be the wave of the future, connecting people to each other and to their surroundings using vehicles like cutting-edge lighting technologies, interactive displays, wireless applications, smart architecture, and art."

This passage is from an ebook titled "The Super Soap Box" by James Tunick.