Once again my friend Marty writes about something relevant to our work. Her reflections upon these navigation tools suggest the way that technology mediates and shapes our interactions with the natural world. Of course she is also suggesting that there is a sort of parallelism between the way we interact with the natural world and the way we are embodied, social beings in a cultural world.
Certainly we could ask if that parallelism is true to our experience. How much is finding one's way in a new community like or unlike finding one's way through the woods or navigating the free-ways of Los Angeles? Is there a social equivalent of MapQuest to guide you into a new social situation?
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