“Social Machines” and the “information field”

An article that provides a fine round-up of what’s going on between people, devices and the web. Nicely written with a sense for historic roots and recent developments. You can almost feel the change that is at our doorsteps. A must-read for those that follow the early adopters and visionaries.

Social Machines: “Web 2.0″: the transformation of the original Web of static documents into a collection of pages that still look like documents but are actually interfaces to full-fledged computing platforms.”

[...]When computing devices are always with us, helping us to be the social beings we are, time spent “on the computer” no longer feels like time taken away from real life.