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Title: When Connecting Things Becomes Possible: 7 Corners of an Evolved Networked Episteme.

This talk describes seven aspects of an evolved digitally networked world, as indicated by weak signals and activities at the “edges” of the network. If we believe that the future lives within existing practices, we might anticipate these seven things to become ordinary, quotidian practices in the near future. The seven characteristics I will share are: first, digitally networked objects, or things that bring relevance because they can participate in the network; second, the relevance of proximity, touch and distance to new interaction rituals; third, geography and landscape as user interfaces experiences; fourth, the possibility to interact with non-humans; fifth, the significance of slowness and preciousness in interaction rituals; sixth, the convergence of “first life” and “second life” and how the crosstalk between the digital and the physical produces new possibilities; seventh, the important reconfiguration of play in the networked age