{"id":4631,"date":"2010-08-10T09:40:58","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T03:53:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-08-10T11:08:56","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T05:08:56","slug":"people_will_inhabit_places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/people_will_inhabit_places\/","title":{"rendered":"People will inhabit places&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>but increasingly the economy inhabits a space.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A <span class=\"nr-highlight\">place is bounded by four dimensions. For two things to be adjacent, they must be close to each other on one of four axes: up\/down, left\/right, back\/forth (x, y, z), and time.<\/span> As rich as physical places are (and we still don&#8217;t appreciate how rich they can be), they limit the number of connections that entities can make within them. A person in a place can only interact with a fixed and rather small number of other people in the same vicinity. Artifacts can touch only the other artifacts in close proximity.<\/p>\n<p>A space, unlike a place, is an electronically created environment. It is where more and more of the economy happens. <span class=\"nr-emphasis\">Unlike place, space has unlimited dimensions<\/span>. Entities (people, objects, agents, bits, nodes, etc.) can be adjacent in a thousand different ways and a thousand different directions. A person in an electronic space can communicate to 10 million people at once, or interact in a game with 20,000 others&#8211;things that would be impossible in physical space. An automobile can be linked in hundreds of directions&#8211;to other cars stuck in traffic miles away, environmental monitors, satellite navigation antennas, toll collectors, and the manufacturer&#8217;s engine-performance center. In physical place a car can only interact with those within braking distance of its front and rear bumpers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/img\/VNRF$$14.jpg\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"nr-caption\">The invention of communication allowed life to evolve from globular organisms into fantastic beings, just as networks allow place-based firms to blossom into fantastic spaces.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>but increasingly the economy inhabits a space. A place is bounded by four dimensions. For two things to be adjacent, they must be close to each other on one of four axes: up\/down, left\/right, back\/forth (x, y, z), and time. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/people_will_inhabit_places\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"1","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[203],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}