SIGHT-FEATURE
INTERNET HUMAN
HUMAN INTERNET
At the dawn of the Renaissance, the artist Cesariano tried to represent the
perfect ratio between the human and the universe by drawing a man inside
the geometry of the circle and square. Unfortunately the human was no
longer perfect: his arms and legs were contorted to fit inside this abstract
geometry.
Then da Vinci drew his Vitruvian Man. He started by drawing an anatomically
and proportionally correct man and only then placed the circle and square
around the figure, shifting the circle slightly below the square, and in the
process, creating an enduring icon of the Renaissance mind.
Today, a similar transformation of the geometry of the internet is taking place.
For over two decades, the logic, architecture, and interface of the internet
have shaped human interaction with a networked world. We have genuflected before immobile computer screens, tethered our hand to mice and
key boards, and organized our mental processes as long threads of serial
operations. But a new internet geometry is now placing humans at the center
- redrawing our networked worlds to fit our native dimensions. This new
human internet, in the tradition of the Vitruvian Man, will enhance and
amplify rather than contain and contort out minds and bodies.
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