What new kinds of public space exist in a society sustained by ambient intelligence

The design community keeps making a lot of noise about designing for people/users/customers. However, while this notion is well-intentioned and even conceptually correct, much of it boils down to empty rhetoric.

steve jobs on microsoft – they got no taste!

Olbermanns 10 minutes of truthiness!

In recent years, tagging systems have become increasingly popular. These systems enable users to add keywords (i.e., tags) to Internet resources (e.g., web pages, images, videos) without relying on a controlled vocabulary.