Databar - Buildings That Protest 5

Sep 21, 2009 11:15


In 4 posts, we moved from smart homes as haunted houses you can patch to a totalitarian vision surveillance and crowd control. Which, frankly, strikes me as somewhat facile. I mean, it’s not going to be ALL jackboots and mind-control fungus, is it?

A few weeks ago, I talked about this with Snarmarket’s Robin Sloan. He’d been tossing around an idea ( Read more... )

cybernetics, architecture, speculation

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contrasoma September 21 2009, 18:36:32 UTC
I'd never heard of Sloan 'til "Mr. Penumbra's Twenty-Four-Hour Bookstore" got 'boinged, but I loved that and this reads neat, too.

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