Contextualized information.

When we try to reduce these technologies into their essential components, we see a growing trend in the geo-spatial contextualizing of information. This trend i s following shortly after, the trend in the socialization of information, throug h which different pieces and sources of information derived their value from the social networks they were able to tap into. While this 'value' was based on the marketing sciences conception that exposure to more people will largely result in higher volumes of consumers, the geo-spatial contextualization trend will dra w its value from something different. Geo-spatially contextualized information draws value from and lends valu e to the spatial networks in which it is situated. While the value of informatio n was radically altered by the socialization of the web, so to might the value o f space be radically redefined by the contextualization of information. There is a tradition of contextualized information that already exists, apart from the interconnectivity of the web ruled world. In fact, a large part o f our past has been defined by the contextualization of information through the use of spaces. Before the times of instantaneous telecommunications, various for ms of information were embodied within locations (churches, throne rooms, milita ry quarters, farms, slavehouses, etc.) This type of geo-spatial information cont extualization seems to have roots that go very far back into our social traditio ns (depending on how liberally we want to indulge our imaginations concerning wh at life might have been like for our hunter gatherer ancestors.) I think it is telling that in many cultures with strong oral histories, the landscape itself embodied both the social narrative, but also the personal a nd familial narratives of the people. In my view, locating information within th e geo-spatial framework is something that humans are very well designed to do. W e have a panoply of sense that gather filter and respond to the various amounts of information that our environments generate at any given time. We have a very odd, but seemingly universal capacity to set locations and objects apart from on e another via a variety of markers, our most popular of which is language. The a ct of name-giving, of granting unto a particular location the meaning of languag e, is a powerful testament to the evolution of the human condition. In the past human cultures have embedded their histories into the landsc ape, and woven the landscape into the fabric of their language and all of its co mmunicative potential. Thus it doesn't seem strange nor out of the ordinary that humans would want to continue that trend of association by using new technologi es to continue embedding information within specific geo-spatial bounds. The mar king of time through events and their reciprocal relationship to the Earth (land scape) seem quite well documented, and in some ways important components of huma n tendancy. What is the important link that can be drawn between the the contextuali zation of information, and various components of social organization. Let's then move our discussion into an examination of the what informati on comes to find its context within certain geo-spatial conditions, and how diff erent environmental and social conditions can come to bear on the inclusion of i nformation within a space. Physical Attributes: Temperature, Height, Land/Sea, Coordinates, Weather measures (barometric pressure, humidity, ppm pollution, etc.) Social Attributes: Historical Significance, Current social values, Traff ic, Role in Governance,