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- Student Works: Smart-Ark
[10 living, breathing, sweating towers form a line of defense in a fragile estuary. All images by Nicholas Szczepaniak.]
Acting as a defense barrier, these 10 massive towers form a line in the Blackwater Estuary in Essex, UK. They are the vision of Nicholas Szczepaniak, a recent graduate of Westminster, and the winner of the RIBA [...]
- Invisible Superprojects
Erie Canal in Lockport, New York
Where are the super-projects? This is the question Louis Uchitelle asks in his recent article “Entering the Superproject Void” (New York Times). In retracing the continuum of America’s greatest hits in large scaled public works (from the Erie Canal to the Hoover Dam, from the transcontinental network of the Interstate [...]
- Space Elevato(we)rs
[space elevator, concept image]
Next week, the Space Frontier Foundation will kick off their NewSpace 2009 Conference at the NASA Ames Research Center. The opening day of the conference, entitled ‘Space Elevator Day’ will explore new technologies and possibilities associated with Space Elevators. The conference is strategically placed between an intriguing paper published earlier this month, [...]
- Rewiring (Tele)Geography
[Telegeography releases the 2008 edition of Global Submarine Cables. Map via telegeography.]
The NY Times recently reported on the tendency of countries to redirect internet traffic away from the United States. Intelligence agencies have previously been gifted with the convenience of a large majority of international internet usage eventually finding its way through US cables. This [...]
- Enviro-veillance: Augmented Oceans
[Global drifter velocity data ... or smart buoys gathering data as they wander aimlessly. In any given month since 1993, there has been an array of more than 600 drifters in the global ocean. Image via EOS.]
A week ago the New York Times expressed that we might be ailing from data exhaustion with the constantly [...]
- Data Island
[The continuous interior of data centers is a palace to the monolithic slabs of data storage.]
In an increasingly ubi-comp environment, massive data centers processing or storing data continue to sprout up in contexts and sites of economic and geographic convenience. In a post-Silicone-valley glow, many sites are happy to promote their contexts as ideal for [...]
