*More on the ubicomp / urban-informatics / geolocative front. Scene kinda boiling lately.
*Golan Levin? Jonah Bruckner-Cohen? Man, this is pretty much bound to be good.
http://vagueterrain.net/journal16
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"Computation is now moving onto body, into spaces, and into the locative devices in real and tangible ways that affect anyone connected to any one of the myriad networks and systems that make up the communicative architecture of our world.
"From gaming systems utilizing gesture and facial recognition to augmented reality applications to intelligent houses, (((yike))) we no longer need to work with theoretical models of what ubiquitous computing or reactive architecture would look like as we're experiencing it in life, in business, in art and design. One can see how it is shaping not only the ways in which things are done, but our conceptions of our selves, our spaces, and our societies.
"Our notion of space has always been at best a rough approximation of the world in which we live, (((that's probably entirely true, but it's also a concept so scary that it borders on the non-Euclidian Lovecraftian))) but it is increasingly becoming, even for the common person, a function of networks, overlapping systems, meshes of different data models, and cybernetic action.
"One does not need to be a technologist to see a not too distant future (((and it's not like those technologists plan to give you a choice anyway))) in which we facilitate and control communication in and around our bodies, spaces, buildings, neighborhoods, and our environments through the use of multiple overlapping devices and networks...."
