Why People Will Geo-Annotate Physical Space

Outcomes of an experience of creating content to simulate a future of ubiquitous geo-located information: Why people will geo-annotate physical space

What’s most crucial for this future to thrive? Interface. Simple, convenient interfaces for inputting annotations, and uncluttered, filtered interfaces for receiving annotations. Trust systems, social networks, and personal profiles & preferences will be necessary tools for survival when every urban street corner may have hundreds of annotations. And my biggest takeaway from this exercise? The future of geo-tagged content doesn’t just belong to the coffee shops that will beam unwanted coupons as you walk by (this will inevitably be done, and let’s hope it dies a quick death) . This new medium will be most fully realized by people — they’ll use this forthcoming infrastructure, just as they have others in the past, to communicate, connect, and live life in new ways.