Space and Time

“Intraurban digital networking furthers the long evolution of human settlements from loose collections of more or less independent dwellings to highly integrated, networked cities in which multiple infrastructures of tracks, pipes and wires deliver centrally supplied infrastructure to buildings and caryy away waste.”

- Mitchell William J. (1999). e-topia. Massachhusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. MA. London, England.

E-topia concerns the shift of spaces from real to virtual. Town halls, markets, food sources, shops… New meeting places are online. Youtube, yahoo groups and so on are the social nodes of the future.

Mitchell views information communication technology as a leveling force, a force for good, equalising the world and breaking down barriers, walls, prejudice between culture. Uniting and unifying people. Expansion of political partys; EU, Nato, IMF, World Bank etc.

- “Good roads and canals will shorten the distances, facilitate commercial and personal intercourse, and unite, by a still more intimate community of interests, the most remote quarters of the United States. No other single operation, with the power of Government, can more effectively tend to strengthen and perpetuate that Union which secures external independence, domestic peace and internal liberty.” –

(Albert Gallatin, Secretary to the US Treasury, 1808, quoted in Perry, 1995, 1)