Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Kansas State University, strikes again with this video on youtube about internet.
Mix it with Everything is Miscellaneous:
But we all know how reality works, so why worry about what might be possible in some sci-fi alternative universe?
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Instead of being limited by space and operational simplicity in the number of items it can stock, the digital world can include every item and variation the buyers at Staples could possibly want.
Instead of items being placed in one area of the store, or occasionally in two, they can be classified in every different category in which users might conceivably expect to find them.
Instead of living in the neat, ordered shelves we find in the Prototype Labs, items can be jumbled digitally and sorted out only when and how a user wants to look for them.
