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European Visions for the Knowledge Age |
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European Visions for the Knowledge Age
A Quest for New Horizons in
the Information Society
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- Paul T Kidd (Ed)
- ISBN 978-1-901864-08-3 (Paperback)
- Price: See buy
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- Chapter 6
- Digital Territory: Bubbles
- Laurent Beslay and Hannu
Hakala
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- Introduction
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- Digital territory is a vision.
It introduces the notions of space and borders and other concepts
to better understand and manage future, everyday digital environments.
Digitisation is growing and becoming increasingly ubiquitous;
in addition, the younger generations are more familiar with the
digital world than previous ones.
Almost all personal data are now networked and thus available
at distant locations. Simultaneously, the boundaries between
traditionally distinct environments, for example, work, home,
and school, are also disappearing as private activities are brought
into the public arena and vice versa. Although the distinction
between private and public areas is not always clear-cut, people
are aware of the boundaries between them, and of the grey zones,
and take informed or intuitive decisions on how to act accordingly.
The vision promoting the implementation of a digital territory
aims for a better clarification of all kinds of interactions
in the future information society. Without digital boundaries,
the fundamental notion of privacy or the feeling of being at
home will not take place. Supported by technologies, the demarcation
in digital territory among personal, private and public spaces
will be decisive for its acceptance and sustained usage. Without
digital boundaries, the information society will remain a parallel
world, the cyberspace that was described by William Gibson [1],
rather than becoming fully integrated with everyday life.
To illustrate the vision of digital territory, the following
sections describe layers of everyday activities, and where it
is possible place digital boundaries. These range from the most
intimate and private territories, such as near the skin, through
to family spaces, and though to interaction between public and
private space. The following examples are intended to illustrate
the digitisation of the various physical territories. The primary
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