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- Re-Link: The Physcial Network of Data
[The global network of submarine cables as it existed in 1901.]
Editors Note: File under Feedback: Architecture’s New Territories, an InfraNet Lab seminar at Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design / University of Toronto. Guest post and images are by Ali Fard.
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With an estimated 1,733,993,741 users and a global growth rate of 380% since 2000 [...]
- 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 [...]
