Just came across this remarkable post on Strange Harvest;“100 Years to Lenin”, made 1970, SiberiaGoogle mapswhich reminded me a lot of this post on cool crop circles from WebUrbanist;[images via: The Daily Mail + WIRED]
This image caught my eye this afternoon;[Via Digg]Digging a little further brought up this image also;[Via The Guardian]I’d looked into this some time ago, noting the interdependance of continents on single connection points for their data resources, and this is a good example of that. The bottom image describes two separate incidents in which human sea activity disrupted data cable connections and resulted in major network shutdowns to entire regions. Whilst these events may occur fairly infrequently (I’d be interested to see some stats on the number of incidents in the last 30 years, or possibly just as interesting, stats on how frequently repair crews are scheduled for ‘routine maintenance’), the above images highlight an inherent weakness of the physical internet.Some thoughts come to…
The Street as platform – a street rendered in data. November has been a busy month! Along with Anthony Burke, Dan Hill and Mitchell Whitelaw, I’ve been running an intensive masterclass studio in the Master of Digital Architecture program at UTS. The masterclass is based on one of Dan’s earlier posts called The Street as Platform, in which the notion of the static street in contemporary urban planning and architecture is discussed as an anachronistic idea and one in dire need of reform. The street as platform talks about the dynamically linked nature of the modern street, where mobile communication, ubiquitous computing and traditional number crunching merge as a new kind of informational street ecology that exists just outside of our normal consciousness.As students…
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