# 2020-05-21



## Read: [Spatial Software | Dark Blue Heaven](https://darkblueheaven.com/spatialsoftware/)

[[Spatial software]] is the idea of bringing spatial interfaces into software.  So far it's most commonly been in games, but you can see it spilling out into more things lately, particular social stuff.

> Like a remake of AIM, where each user gets a house that friends can stop by to visit.

This is kind of what I was thinking with wikis and [[collaborative memory palaces]]. 

> In fact, you can put a world inside of almost any interface. Even a blog post.

Or a wiki perhaps.  What would that look like?  [[Antistatic gardens]] are maybe a hint at that.  A throwback to [[HyperCard]] perhaps.


## Enjoying 84K

Still reading through and very much enjoying [[84K]].  One of best books I've read for a while, so far.  It's a really unconventional writing style, and it's great.  Very poetic.  A refreshing change to that kind of generic stilted cyberpunk patter you get in a lot of near-future fiction.

It's a pretty sad book though. It's somewhere between [[Kafka]],  [[Brazil]] and [[1984]]. The way it captures some of the potential awfulness of a fully corporatised society, I find it much more depressing than a lot of the cyberpunk dystopias.  [[Cultural hegemony]] is much more terrifying than a cabal of bad guys.