Information flow is changing relative value of regions and locations
Why high information-flow is changing the relative value of regions and locations and how National Cultural Policy can take this into account.
Our societies are forming in new ways. The ability to communicate remotely in real-time changes things. Space, community and place are becoming different things now. Space is no longer a passive thing that time marches through. Time and space are connected and changed by the flow of information.
1. Information
2. Time and
3. Location-location-location.
These things control and define value, or so any real-estate agent will tell you. In this model, information is thought of as a static thing. Something one knows or does not. Like the right price, or someone’s name.
But information is increasingly becoming less of a fixed thing, it is a two-directional flow. We watch a video, and send back our response. We read an article, and comment. We have a question so we may seek, find and edit an answer immediately. (Space-of-flows)
With the Internet we now have:
1. Information-flow
2. Location
3. Time.
Information-flow is also often called bandwidth, data-transfer, network speed.Information is no longer a static thing, it has become a potential, an ability. Something that we can change the flow of, like water through a tap.
National Cultural policy needs to take this concept into account. Culture can be fertilised and thrive given access to high information-flow. Regions without it will become parched, routed around and marginalised.
Why high information-flow is changing the relative value of regions and locations and how the National cultural policy can take this into account.
Our societies are forming in new ways. The ability to communicate remotely in real-time changes things. Space, community and place are becoming different things now. Space is no longer a passive thing that time marches through. Time and space are connected and changed by the flow of information.
- Information
- Time and
- Location-location-location.
These things control and define value, or so any real-estate agent will tell you. In this model, information is thought of as a static thing. Something one knows or does not. Like the right price, or someone’s name.
But information is increasingly becoming less of a fixed thing, it is a two-directional flow. We watch a video, and send back our response. We read an article, and comment. We have a question so we may seek, find and edit an answer immediately. (Space-of-flows)
With the Internet we now have:
- Information-flow
- Location
- Time.
Information-flow is also often called bandwidth, data-transfer, network speed.Information is no longer a static thing, it has become a potential, an ability. Something that we can change the flow of, like water through a tap.
National Cultural policy needs to take this concept into account. Culture can be fertilised and thrive given access to high information-flow. Regions without it will become parched, routed around and marginalised.
(Reference, Space-of-Flows, Wikipedia, Castells, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_of_flows)
