Tag: parallel worlds

The parallel worlds of publishing

By Martin Recke

The book publishing industry is a parallel world in its own right. How fitting to publish a book about Parallelwelten.
Divide and rule: the dark side of parallel digital cultures

By Adam Tinworth

The internet can seduce us into like-minded bubbles of people like us. But isolate communities can be easily influenced, and turned down a darker path…
The parallel worlds of culture

By Martin Recke

Digital cultures are fundamentally different not only from mass culture of the 20th century, but also from each other. They'll probably develop a new kind of public sphere.
The Digital Parallel Worlds of different generations

By Adam Tinworth

The world can be divided in two, right? Those of us who had to learn digital, and those who have known it their whole lives? Wrong. The truth is much more complex…
Light and Darkness

By Martin Recke

Is a New Dark Age upon us, as James Bridle insists? There is a certain dialectic of enlightenment at work that persists into the digital age.
The paperless office isn’t an ideal: it’s a nightmare

By Adam Tinworth

The paperless office hasn't arrived yet, despite decades promising that it's just round the corner. We should be glad of that. It would be terrible.
Don’t let nostalgia strangle the Creative Age

By Adam Tinworth

The Industrial Age is done – and robots have taken the factory floor. Let's not wax nostalgic for a bygone age, but push forwards accepting the new partnership between human and digital technology.
Innovation is fragmented, not monolithic. The next change will surprise us.

By Adam Tinworth

The world wasn't watching as the web was born. Many people laughed at the iPhone, a product from a company not long off life-support. True innovation happens in fragmented worlds away from the mainstream.
Global tribalism: can we adapt to it?

By Adam Tinworth

Tribalism is fundamental to humanity - we always gather in communities. But the internet has allowed us to bothe connect globally, while isolating ourselves locally. Therein lies the danger.
Lessons from parallel digital worlds

By Adam Tinworth

The digital world is not a homogenous whole, but a series of parallel states, twisting ideas into new forms as they pass between them. And Instagram is becoming a very western version of a Chinese idea…
Parallelwelten

By Martin Recke

What if, somewhere in the universe, there existed a world identical to the one we know? What if there was not only one, but many Parallelwelten, i.e. parallel worlds?