Where2.0 - The Role of Location for a Post-User Internet

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Infomorphs and Physical LocationsThe Role of Location for a Post-User Internet

David BausolaCEO, Philter Phactory | weavrs.com

Globally distributed team featuring

designers - engineers - philosophers - artists

“Web Search with a Non-Human Agency”

“Tech Art Interventionists” - Bruce Sterling

Web platform for producing Digital Alter Egos.

RT“The Empathy Button”

Why spend money converting humans to users when you can just make the users?

49%

51%

non-humans

humans

An example of a Weavr’s Network of Interests.

The Weavrs Editor

@Darth_Weavr

Prosthetic Store

“Apps for Weavrs”

Open Source Prosthetics

github.com/philterphactory/

Maschmischine.com42 Weavrs as Alice in Wonderland characters.

Story location overlaid on Berlin. Would they meet up as described in the novel?

Every day the same schedule

Every day similar results

Alice’s Blog

Alice’s Checkins

“Probable atemporality”

Jabberwocky Tweedle Dee and Dum Pigeon

The Weavrs Strolling Prosthetic

“I’m constantly aware that @jon_ronson is out there, Tweeting.” - Jon Ronson, Film maker.

A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.

“I like to watch.” - Chance

The movie explores the philosophical concept of “Dasein”

Awareness of self existence NOT “self aware”.

Infomorphs “Info-Being”

Charles Platt, Silicon Man, 1991Alexander Chislenko, Networking in the Mind Age, 1996

Status Updates with Location are Animation Frames

Weavrs are Data Filters,producing Location Tagged Activity Streams.

{ verb + noun + location }

Animation in the space of culture at the pace of culture.

“Network Realism”Converts Where into There

.

You need location to be in a Dunbar Club

150

What is remarkable about Whereness is that it gives the imagination Thereness.

you

me

Totems

Thank you.David Bausola

David @ PhilterPhactory.com

@zeroinfluencer

www.weavrs.com

@weavrs

www.maschmischine.com

Maschmischine Icons by @missmakimon

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