I am now forced to think only about the past now. The past, as in the past days of sentences that I have partially finished and those I have finished, but I have to upload them on substack. The more you delay the more it seems like a future is moving faster than you can catch up to it. There are also the notes that I have to archive, from the other note-taking apps I have to think about. The future now, or so what it looks like for this month is all about the past and how it will log itself into parameters of the present. News works like that, is now my informed opinion. Print has limits and there are so many events you can add within how many sheets you can print, certain happenings are left out. we are therefore informed about it only in the future. It is difficult to fully grasp how much is changing and how much of that change we are fully aware of. It is necessary to note therefore we are living simultaneously both in the past and in an imagination of a future. With this context, I think we need a guide. A guide for the moment is the only instrument that documents both the past and present and makes it look like it is a future. There is also no theory upfront to engage with the guide. The Whole World Catalog was the first task, that inspired the Internet, architecture needs something like that to assist in building its future too. Kevin Kelly has that Cool Tools, thing too. Tools impacted a kind of work, knowing how it works helped developed better tools, i.e., the Internet of the past. For architecture, we need to know what is the material available to shape thinking about spatial practices. We need a Spatial Whole World Catalogue.
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