The last chapter - Boston.com - 0 views
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Richard Smyth on 10 Apr 11This is the article I mentioned in class last Thursday. There are a handful of letters to the editor about it in today's Globe.
We can't see how the street is immersed in a twitching, pulsing cloud of data. This is over and above the well-established electromagnetic radiation, crackles of static, radio waves conveying radio and television broadcasts in digital and analogue forms, police voice traffic. This is a new kind of data, collective and individual, aggregated and discrete, open and closed, constantly logging impossibly detailed patterns of behaviour. The behaviour of the street.
