AT Protocol, AT Fields, and the Liberation of the Social Graph
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As ubiquitous as it is now, the social graph, or alternatively, social network or sociogram, which defines our connections and who we relate to in modern life in an almost totally formal sense, is less than 100 years old. It was invented in the 1930s by a Psychoanalyst and Sociologist named J L Moreno who wanted a way to quantify the relationships between people, originally in the hope of using this analysis to nurture a healthy “social atom” of connections for individuals, the friends, family and acquaintances who make life worth living and open up new possibilities for us in society. The past twenty years has cemented this formalization of social relations as we’ve become embedded in a cyberspace which requires specific syntax, in computer code, to make such connections.
AT Protocol, AT Fields, and the Liberation of the Social Graph
AT Protocol, AT Fields, and the Liberation of…
AT Protocol, AT Fields, and the Liberation of the Social Graph
As ubiquitous as it is now, the social graph, or alternatively, social network or sociogram, which defines our connections and who we relate to in modern life in an almost totally formal sense, is less than 100 years old. It was invented in the 1930s by a Psychoanalyst and Sociologist named J L Moreno who wanted a way to quantify the relationships between people, originally in the hope of using this analysis to nurture a healthy “social atom” of connections for individuals, the friends, family and acquaintances who make life worth living and open up new possibilities for us in society. The past twenty years has cemented this formalization of social relations as we’ve become embedded in a cyberspace which requires specific syntax, in computer code, to make such connections.