 Home is where the hub is:
The Technomad, the Architect and me.
Abstract
There can be little doubt that the paradigms of 'home' and 'self' have shifted as a direct result of the communications revolution, rendering physical location virtually irrelevant.
The technomad - loosely defined as a nomad that uses only advanced communications to retain contact with "society" - is merely extending the modes of a lifestyle familiar to many of us in our everyday lives. If these high-tech adventurers have any importance to us, it is as benchmarks of society's attitudes towards, and reliance upon, ever more user friendly and commercially viable network technologies. How far we have travelled in their footsteps is open to question. Is the technomad another step in man's evolution, or a red herring?
What is clear is that Community has a wider scope in the Internet age. No longer restricted by streets, county boundaries or neighbourhoods, the community model is developing outside of its traditional bounds, and it is communication media that has rendered this possible. Whether society is dead is certainly debatable. Community, however, is thriving. In new clothing, perhaps, but community all the same.
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John Lyons BA(Hons). egovision design and SouthBank University, London. |
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