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Cyborg City

“The city’s digital nervous system, as it exists now, is a patchwork of public and private endeavors, with corporate and government applications that are discrete. There’s one program in the Department of Transportation, another program organized by the guys at Foursquare. The real excitement, for people working in this sector, is the ‘appification’ of the city: What if the city could fuse a bunch of those different data streams, it could create an urban environment keenly aware of itself as an organism. The city as a body is an old metaphor; a city with a real, functioning nervous system would put truth to the metaphor.” Full article

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