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This is Actually Happening: Superposition!
We’ve gone beyond defining spaces as either/or. Discussions of private space vs public space inevitably turn to how we blur the space, how we co-exist in both, and how easily we jump back and forth between the two and live in a gray area that is both. Rather than continue to use these previously defined terms, we should refer to new spaces in this increasingly technologically mediated world and find new terms for this phenomena that we are experiencing. It won’t be long before quantum computers will be able to work in superposition, enabling them to predict and seek out all possible solutions to complicated algorthms that classic computerswere not able to perform. On a cultural level, we already live our lives in a kind of superposition. Haven’t we all felt that our lives are split, between physical and virtual, digital and analog, private vs. public? We already have recognized and accepted (without much fight) this constant state of superposition that we live in. So let’s throw away the old, black and white terms of the past and create new one’s for our current times. We no longer live in a purely analog state, nor a purely digital state. Rather, we live somewhere on a spectrum in between the two.