Response to Digital District,

CHAN MIN KANG

It is a fact that today, everything that we do everyday related to digital information or what we called the internet. We can get the news, the show, our food, our clothes, just by sitting on a computer with connection to the internet. Even large businesses nowadays rely on internet of doing their business. A breakdown of internet can cause massive looses to some company that heavily rely on them. A digital district is a plan that most of the major developing cities are trying to imply. Even back in my country, Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur already has a digital district setting up in Cyberjaya.

A digital district doesn’t have to be newly built or looked different. The concept behind the digital district requires a massive complicating server system to support the internet or the digital information flow within the digital district. This system will be installed behind each building or a site, but still retain most of the existing architecture. This system will able to support more than just fast internet surfing, it will provide a playground for latest new technology. New technology that able to fully utilize the fast internet connection will changes the way the people in digital district interact. Socially, people will not be relying more on physical interaction anymore. A digital district will surely cut down physical interaction or physical mobility of human within that area; and there will be increase of information mobility, which is a much virtual thing. So do virtual mobility better than physical mobility? Or we need a stage where physical and virtual mobility are needed together to create the perfect environment cityscape.