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Comment on About by Non-fiction » twitteropolis is becoming

Non-fiction » twitteropolis is becoming — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:44:09 +0000

[...] from the future. A key inspiration for this presentation has been our recent investigations with Ben Cerveny and VURB into the digital sphere of the city, where information becomes weather and infrastructure [...]

Comment on Civic Information Systems by Don Hopkins

Don Hopkins — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:13:28 +0000

How about applying Hans Monderman’s road traffic design model to network protocol and packet switching hardware design?

Remove regulatory traffic control features such as RSVP, ICMP, ARP, BGP, DCCP, SCTP, etc.
Network centers would be “shared spaces” where packets slow down, look each other in the eyes, and negotiate their movements directly with each other, to safely and efficiently reach their goals.

Comment on About by Pasta&Vinegar » Blog Archive » Ben Cerveny at Urban Labs

Pasta&Vinegar » Blog Archive » Ben Cerveny at Urban Labs — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:25:33 +0000

[...] (messy) notes from Ben Cerveny’s talk at Urban Labs which was organized by Citilab (Cornella, near [...]

Comment on Urban Interface Policy by Stuff I’ve seen October 24th through to October 25th | Podnosh

Stuff I’ve seen October 24th through to October 25th | Podnosh — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:02:33 +0000

[...] Urban Interface Policy – VURB – "In the smart city, what is written as programmatic software ‘code’ can easily become defacto ‘law’ as it imposes permissioning schemes and identity regimes on it’s participants. So far, the internet, and the open source software that powers much of it, has remained remarkably adaptable to the ideals of democratic and egalitarian societies. Every infrastructural advance, however, goes through a watershed moment where the governing design principles of the technology itself begin to influence the types of societal experiences they might produce. We need to attempt to understand the cultural ramifications of such infrastructural design decisions in this context" [...]

Comment on Collaborative Redevelopment by The Mobile City » Blog Archive » Picnic 09 Report 2: The City as an Interaction Platform

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:03:50 +0000

[...] Collaborative Redevelopment- multiparticipant social models (analogue to for instance World of Warcraft) that allows people to interact socially on common goals. [...]

Comment on Civic Information Systems by The Mobile City » Blog Archive » Picnic 09 Report 2: The City as an Interaction Platform

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:02:05 +0000

[...] Systems Literacy & Civic Information Systems – can data visualization of complex interactions in the city lead citizens to get a better grasp [...]

Comment on Urban Systems Literacy by The Mobile City » Blog Archive » Picnic 09 Report 2: The City as an Interaction Platform

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:01:44 +0000

[...] Urban Systems Literacy & Civic Information Systems – can data visualization of complex interactions in the city lead citizens to get a better grasp of what is happening around them (Like the newspaper did in the 17th century)? [...]

Comment on Urban Interface Policy by The Mobile City » Blog Archive

The Mobile City » Blog Archive — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:58:50 +0000

[...] Responsive Environments – the environment starts to know what is going on. “What are the mechanisms by which these services are provisioned by the tasks that citizens utilize them for?” [...]

Comment on The Medium is the Metropolis by Augmenter la ville : pour quoi faire ? | traffic-internet.net

Augmenter la ville : pour quoi faire ? | traffic-internet.net — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:10:28 +0000

[...] sert à optimiser les trafics, les relations, les commerces… Aujourd’hui, la Metropolis (c’est-à-dire la métropole que sont devenus chacune de nos villes) devient le médium, le réseau : “la ville est devenue un métabolisme [...]

Comment on Urban Interface Policy by AG

AG — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:21:32 +0000

So far, the internet, and the open source software that powers much of it, has remained remarkably adaptable to the ideals of democratic and egalitarian societies. Every infrastructural advance, however, goes through a watershed moment where the governing design principles of the technology itself begin to influence the types of societal experiences they might produce.

In this regard, you should see Rebecca MacKinnon’s forthcoming work on the Chinese government’s interest in IPv6. It’s pretty hair-raising stuff – basically they’ve taken all the conjectural material about differential permissioning and ubiquitous surveillance in Everyware and used it as a punch list when they went talking to IT vendors.