Playing with apps like Aurasma, Findery, Path, time traveling online, realizing the speed and fluidity of information and our own hyper-mobility, I have no difficulty whatsoever to imagine the pervasiveness of enhanced sensory sensations in a reality which is augmented to the level of not discerning single media anymore. Today we are still in an essentially mechanistic adding mode. This still is Early Information Age. We see our media like McLuhan saw them in 1964: as extensions, as tools and channels, lined up, sequenced. We make distinctions as to what old and new media are, as to where and how atoms and bits live. We look at moving images and call it video, or a movie. Or the view, a landscape, seascape, street scene. We look at them on our devices, alone, in company, or we go to places where to find them, where they are shown to us, performed with and by us, in company of those who went to the same place at the same time, maybe for the same purpose. Then we go to places to look at images again, sculpture and painting and installations of a kind, and call that visiting the museum. We buy a picture or an object at an art gallery to take it to a place that we call home, where we hang it or store it. We buy books at a store, which could be in a museum or any other kind of outlet, or maybe online, to have them shipped to us, by a service. We download and stream lots of sound and images and text, to enjoy wherever and whenever we feel the need for it. ‘Access to all information, at all times and all places’ is the original information age promise. Much of that information is there to give us joy, in its consumption, in its sharing, in the experience, memory and knowledge that it brings to us and to our friends. We still discuss and theorize such joys by adding up and distracting media.

Combining real time sensor measured information about our location, direction and pace, about what we look like and what we are looking at, about what we used to look like, and at, in the past, and about what we have been doing and what we plan or hope to do in the future — all that and more (historical and actual) information will fill every experience that we will ever have, seamlessly catered from sources both at and outside the immediate environment, actual attendance, outside the very moment of that experience, merging with it, making it into one experience, the only experience, our experience. Every image or sound or touch, maybe taste or smell, will be able to trigger mediated experiences, reactions from the ones that we are with or who are elsewhere, leading a life contemporary to our own. Then the rippling of our movements and thoughts and experiences will expand into the future, to cross the ripples of even distant in time events, lives. The spur of the moment will be a high of infinite first impressions, coming to us from all directions in space and time, living memories, recombined experiences, merging everything and everyone's existence, for ever. No more amens. No more media. Just life, for the infinitely curious and sensitive.