12 August 2008 at 5:33 am | In Collaboration and social neuroscience | Leave a Comment
Parisian neighbours meet online, BBC story about Peuplade, putting urban denizens in touch with each other, since close geographical proximity alone does not get diverse people talking with each other.
Are city environments necessary? Probably, Slashdotters say. Richard Florida suggests so in Rise of the creative class : and how it’s transforming work, leisure, community and everyday life. He’s the one who posits a correlation between the “gay index” and the “high-tech index,” which is of course disputed by straight people who point to productivity in sterile suburban research parks full of white male patriarchalists (who do respect new ideas. Up to a point.) But some kind of permeability of boundaries seems to be necessary for social networking to build innovative and technical productivity.
