Networked Basketball Confounds
Regarding a futurist's first attempt at the next golden age of professional sport:
Perhaps the ultimate manifestation of this third golden age would be the Anti-Olympics (aka Global Village Basketball). Over the past century we have noticed a shift in the Modern Olympics from a nationalist-in-a-multinational-sense sporting event to an ideological-nationalist-in-a-globalized-sense sporting event. Now that new technologies (predominantly communication-oriented) are shifting the geographic focus to becoming more glo-localized, sport forms must adapt to reflect this reality.
Said in the context of McLuhan's Laws of Media, as the Modern Olympics accelerate beyond their useful existence, they will obsolesce and reverse into an anti-Olympic environment. In this case, I am proposing that we will see the networked meta-event of Global Village Basketball.
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The Department of Biological Flow is a project of research-creation by Sean Smith and Barbara Fornssler exploring the concept of the moving human body as it is integrated with broader information networks of signal and noise.
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