online · digital
being connected to a structure that transports information
Examples
- The 2023 outage of Cloudflare's global DNS network disrupted access to sites like Hinge and Gov.uk for four hours. computing
- During the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, Japan's SHIS earthquake early warning system broadcast alerts seconds before shaking reached Tokyo. engineering
- In 2020, the U.S. Postal Service's mail processing delays affected delivery of election ballots in swing states. institutions
Emergence
through: A web.structure transports information, and when something connects to it, the connection enables ongoing flow.
- continuous access
- potential for interaction
- distributed presence
Chain to foundations
as tree
- onlineL8
- webL4
- structureL2
- interactionL2
- touchL3
- spaceL0 (shown above)
- boundaryL2
- spaceL0 (shown above)
- differenceL1
- patternL0 (shown above)
- changeL1 (shown above)
- interactionL2 (shown above)
- changeL1 (shown above)
- pieceL3
- informationL6
- carryingL5
- connectsL7
- webL4
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Used by (3)
Relations
| enables | use.application |