From SocialSoftware...

It's not essentially new that there is technology bringing people together. Consider a world before a road network was created, and then consider the world after the road network was well established. The world must have changed a lot.

The RoadNetwork formed in most places at that time by simply smoothing over the traditional paths people had been travelling already, say by cutting down the vegetation to widen the path, and then smoothing the ground underneath. The analogy of path building has been taken to the Internet already a la PathsInHypermedia.

CategoryUrbanDesign