(..) This connected network of information in the cloud will be tailored through portals and digital devices to directly connect the disparate spatial phenomena and the interested parties. The portals will collect and transform information, presenting it to a team member in a way that is specific to that person. This technical architecture will profoundly impact the tools that design professionals use, but far more significantly will infuse the process of design and delivery, our identities as professionals, our connection to our work, and work to society. This is true of any discipline. Architecture will, however, be uniquely impacted by spatial aspects - the ways that networked space and spatial structure weave their way through the Web and out into the world. Algorithmic geometry - the transformations, mappings and embeddings that connect the data stores and bridge the digital-physical divide - will structure the spatial connectedness of this network.
- Dennis Shelden on NETWORKED & WEB SPACE