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Nik Hilton  //  www.design4d.co.uk
Young Architect of the Year Nominee 2009, 2010, 2011
Finalist in the British Homes Awards 2009
Finalist in the Design awards 2009

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Apr 17 / 7:02pm

Digital 'Life'

This video shows a highly plausible prediction of the future where networked home appliances tap into our digital social networks to predict and potentially shape our mood and home requirements.

Facebook enables a person to keep in touch with numerous social groups simultaneously while applications such as Foursquare enable real-time locating of individual people. This technology begins to form a database of your personality as shaped by your friends and surroundings. From this database we will see the birth of digital personalities, much like HAL in 2001:Space Odyssey, tailored to compliment your own mood and requirements. How is this going to affect our relationships with one another in the future and the environments we live in?

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Sep 6 / 1:51pm

What impacts will social media have on the built environment?

Last week I spoke about the idea that we need to be reusing and recycling items in construction as much as possible. In response one of our readers, Maciek Weyberg sent me a link to www.freecycle.org. This is an online mechanism for trading unwanted items. I was surprised to see this organisation has over 7.5million members. Although Freecycle works more on a domestic scale there is no reason why this couldn't be upscaled to the construction industry. Social networks are engaging larger groups of people over greater distances. This is  affecting both the way business is done but also the environments best suited for working within whether they be physical or virtual.  What other impacts will social media have on the built environment?

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