The growing population of public social network participants will result in an ever-larger number of people who need and want to participate in private communities, if only to turn down the noiseand tune out the clutter of the public networks.
Living in such small spaces is going to push people to furnish their own living spaces without an inherent sense of clutter or visual noise, says Theo Richardson, an industrial designer and co-founder of Rich Brilliant Willing (RBW), a Brooklyn-based contemporary lighting and furniture design manufacturer.