Spacebook, part 1

For your consideration: headlines, freshly mashed from the last 24 hours.

Headline 1: Antony Gormley wants you for the fourth plinth.

Headline 2: Facebook gets democratic - encourages voting on terms of service.

Mash-up: The dawn of real time social and spatial democracy.

Channels of communication are open, and meaningful dialogue is flowing. Ordinary people are capable of influencing the course of distant events as they unfold. Power structures and structures of physical matter are increasingly transparent. We can “see” inside governments and companies, as well as around corners and through walls. Facebook is undertaking an experiment in governance, and Antony Gormley is undertaking an experiment in the appropriation of public space. The tapestry weaving itself from these threads is going to be very interesting. I’m excited. Are you?