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Ben Hammersley is a British journalist, broadcaster, and photographer, currently based between Florence, Italy, and London, England. Here is his biography on wikipedia.

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Hertzian overlays, and the lack thereof

February 10th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under
Back from a weekend just outside of Barcelona, revelling in the Losowskian Birthday Proceedings and the entire lack of IP connectivity, I find this paragraph from Adam Greenfield’s latest posting:
This goes back to the joke I always make about opening a chain of coffeehouses called Faraday’s: under the condition of ambient informatics, we will need to consciously create platforms for the specific kind of conviviality we recognize as animating our “third places,” and we will generally have to do this by physically denying, buffering or mitigating the Hertzian overlay. And this will be true at least as long as we recognize that there is an inherent value to the specific kinds of interactions we only tend to have when confined to the possibilities physically present in the room. Or to the degree that we do recognize that, anyway.

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