Future Wireless Vision • C.Condorelli, B.Gibson \

by Celine Condorelli and Beatrice Gibson, taxi_onomy

Our vision of a wireless future is dystopic. Being constantly connected means you are forced to simultaneously be doing several things at once, and we see this as a fundamental problem. A world in which we cease to process because we are swamped by the varying and multiple trajectories of information means, in fact, that we are increasingly distracted by our own technology, and that we cannot escape our own data. We become in essence the victims of an economy of distraction.

Our vision of future wireless, however, is utopic. Where a wireless future is one we find ourselves to have landed in, a future wireless is one we have moulded ourselves. The potential to appropriate, inhabit and parasitically adapt the economy of distraction into a future wireless predicated on community means, is what excites us.  A future wireless transforms the technology of locative spam into something that can be appropriated for communities, or for the individual, undermining its own problematic. Wireless technology is a tool only interesting when used for specific purposes; if it allows a community to be self-sufficient for example, in terms of how it communicates or in terms of how it archives its own information and its own memory then that’s a fundamentally democratic process. But then, what is interesting is not the wireless per se; rather, the way the wireless has facilitated the archive.

A future wireless in a future in which we can roam the streets free of wires, connected but having the right to disconnect, connected and having the right to redistribute our connection, re-appropriating territory and rebroadcasting it.

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