Living in Digital Worlds

2 Digital public space for the evolved mind

 

 

 

 

In order to understand how being an inhabitant of the digital public space influences us, and how we influence and shape it as an environment, it is useful to trace the evolution of the human mind, how it has emerged as it is, and how that is an interesting variable in the lens of the way in which we interact with the digital public space.

We will see from a historical perspective, that the ability to live in social groups with support networks of others related to us has been critical to our development, and that other technologies have built upon the human propensity to hold shared intellectual resources, communicate and share information. Digital public space is an extension of the informational ...