“Instead of Big Brother, this is more like ten thousand little brothers.”—Malcolm McCullough.    

At a global and regional scale, network flows shape business centers and political capitals. Undersea fiber optic cables link hubs of the global economy.    

Although online activity can support partially stand-in for meeting places, using computer mediated communication and digital media does not represent participation in exact sense of “civic participation”. 

Yochai Benkler describes “commons-based peer-production” as “groups of individuals [that] successfully collaborate on large-scale projects following a diverse cluster of motivational drives and social signals...”    

World population compared to the number of microchips globally. “Next comes ubiquitous computing, or the age of calm technology, when technology recedes into the background of our lives.” -- Mark Weiser, 1996

[U]nsuspecting pedestrians will be tickled, stretched, flicked or removed entirely in real-time by a giant deity.

The hidden rules governing social behavior in space are rarely made explicit. And thanks to computer-mediated-communication, the rules have changed.

Forage Berkeley used crowdsourcing to map the location of public fruit trees in Berkeley.