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Posted by Bruce Sterling to Beyond the Beyond.
FERAL CITIES
Richard J. Norton
Naval War College Review, Autumn 2003, Vol. LVI, No. 4
http://www.nwc.navy.mil/press/Review/2003/Autumn/art6-a03.htm
FERAL CITIES
Richard J. Norton
Naval War College Review, Autumn 2003, Vol. LVI, No. 4
Imagine a great metropolis covering hundreds of square miles. Once a vital component in a national economy, this sprawling urban environment is now a vast collection of blighted buildings, an immense petri dish of both ancient and new diseases, a territory where the rule of law has long been replaced by near anarchy in which the only security available is that which is attained through brute power.1
Such cities have been routinely imagined in apocalyptic movies and in certain science-fiction genres, (((yo!))) where they are often portrayed as gigantic versions of T. S. Eliot’s Rat’s Alley.2 Yet this city would still be globally connected. It would possess at least a modicum of commercial linkages, and some of its inhabitants
would have access to the world’s most modern communication and computing technologies. It would, in effect, be a feral city.
Admittedly, the very term “feral city” is both provocative and
controversial.
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Congress considers protecting journalists from being forced to reveal their sources, while punishing government workers who leak secrets to reporters. Here’s why that schizophrenic approach actually makes sense. Commentary by Jennifer Granick.
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Posted by Jonathan Adler to Volokh.
This Slate article about the federal Office of National Drug Control Policy’s new anti-marijuana ad, “Pete’s Couch” prompts the following question: If one of the greatest harms of marijuana use is that it makes you lazy — as one would expect it to be if the federal government is producing ads about it — why is marijuana use a criminal offense?
Via a post by Jonathan Adler at Volokh. Interesting comments there.
Great films, kind of like Gondry’s stuff. I recommend Off The Beaten Track. Link.
Via MAKE: Blog.
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Helen Evans and Heiko Hansen made a modular light system for architecture, which reacts to the electromagnetic fields generated by touch. Link.
Via MAKE: Blog.
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Fossil and Sony Ericsson are developing timepieces that tell you who’s calling your cell phone.
In Gear Factor.
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