Complex Networked Architectures

What about the people who don’t like software, hardware or technology in general? For sure they aren’t one of the user profiles in the accessibility and usability discussion. But they will be indirectly affected no doubt. I guess they just get weeded out? survival of the fittest ...

Taking up from Jared's post on Simple Complexity...A complex networked architecture designed to save time will not cover all aspects of Everyware. Think about Modernity and industrialization. All the sudden we had the power in these nations to create mass suburban housing developments; build huge urban institutions from reinforced concrete, steel and bricks; and ultimately what happened? At least in urban environments, the structures and architectures we built are largely uninhabitable; often doing more harm than good. Now zoning laws transform habitable areas into uninhabitable areas, this is why I go downtown for my volunteer work. Surrounded by buildings which work great during the daytime, but are completely vacant at night; leaving behind those who panhandle for change in the daytime. And rightly so, we do need change, they do need change, and they go to the source of their oppression and ask for it; downtown. Theirs’ is a direct tax, operating outside the law, purely by the sympathy of human nature; while the corporate method is indirect and operates by the laws of oppression and taxation.

I see downtown as the equivalent to the harbors of Boston in the 18th. The taxes stem from those buildings/harbors. They lobby in congress, get some zoning laws and property taxes changed so they can indirectly boot the people living in the places they need to build on; for those areas are prospected for their ease of access, low cost, and time saving location.

And we're on route right now to do the same thing modernity did with its industry and factories. Its good that we have people like Greenfield calling attention to these contemporary issues, getting the word out and asking us to discuss, but the focus on convenience and time-saving, at the moment may sound wonderful, considering how valuable time is to us, but time is very much money, and not everyone has equal access to that, but everyone does have equal access to time, so lets not screw this up like much of Ford-ism did for Modernity. That complex networked architecture is no different from the one we're building today; luckily, for now at least we still have the opportunity to influence that outcome…

some European nations are doing some really cool stuff with sustainable, organic, & interactive architectures, I think these guys are moving in the right direction; how bout yall? do you think this is a very likely route our current economy would take-up?