Howard Rheingold über die Vision Tangible Bits von Hiroshi Ishii.

PCs gave us spreadsheets, word processors, outliners, information managers, graphical toolkits that have become part of our cognitive scaffolding along with reading and writing, and the Internet gave us virtual communities and Friendster as a new variety of social organizing. What new ways of thinking and interacting are we likely to experience in a world of Phicons, computational clay, musicBottles, and calm technology?
Howard Rheingold in TheFeature.com zu Tangible Bits.

"At the seashore, between the land of atoms and the sea of bits, we are now facing the challenge of reconciling our dual citizenship in the physical and digital worlds. Our windows to the digital world have been confined to flat rectangular screens and pixels, or 'painted bits.' While our visual senses are steeped in the sea of digital information, our bodies remain in the physical world. The vision of Tangible Bits is to provide seamless coupling between these two very different worlds of bits and atoms."
Hiroshi Ishii, Head, Tangible Media Group, MIT Media Lab

[Via: http://www.thefeature.com ]