Where Wilson's 1930s home might have held nothing more electronic than a crystal radio to lure him indoors, the twenty-first century equivalent can offer hundreds of television channels, increasingly vibrant computer games, kaleidoscopic Internet access, and endless social interaction to be found on glowing monitors.
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari used the word rhizome, like an underground plant stem, to explain theory and ideas (and, subsequently, as a suggestion for society) with endless connections and interactions, an assemblage, without an inherent hierarchy of either development or values.
This complex landscape allows for endless combinations of new interactions, which in turn leads to constant, easy, productive innovation.
Many television viewers, of sports and other programming, are constantly surfing — among channels, even among mediums — in an endless quest for information, interaction, instant gratification.
Their endless, presumably entirely confected interaction is perhaps the ultimate celebrity magazine formula: a cavalcade of imagined break-ups, make-ups and jealousies so die-hard it could survive a nuclear winter.
If Facebook users are in a mode of endless scroll and passive interaction, how will a Facebook ad ever perform in a way that will cause brands to buy again?
We've automated the way we interact with people, where we're constantly measuring and optimizing those interactions in an endless cycle of self-improvement.
Because of the endless "D'oh" moments, the only interactions you have with it is on accident; Ask Siri to call you an ambulance, and it literally calls you 'An Ambulance.'.
However, by not including the side edges of the building within the frame of the photograph, Gursky made the structure look infinitely wide, with thousands of inhabitants living in close quarters but with no visible interaction and the endless repetition of walls between apartments—seemingly isolated and alienated from one another.
For readers of an SMR, the options for interaction are virtually endless.
