AIGA: Watching a single place evolve over time reveals small histories and granular inconsistencies. Train stations and airports are built, a gunpowder factory disappears for the length of the Cold War. But on certain maps, in Switzerland’s more remote regions, there is also, curiously, a spider, a man’s face, a naked woman, a hiker, a […]

Speaking of how the model of reality which a technology proposes can end up influencing and changing reality itself, here’s George Dyson: Their models are no longer models. The search engine is no longer a model of human knowledge, it /is/ human knowledge. What began as a mapping of human meaning now defines human meaning, […]

Forse vi ricordate di Justin O’Beirne: è quel tipo fissato con la topografia di Google Maps e Apple Maps. Ne ha scritto nel dettaglio più volte in passato, ha anche un pezzo su come cambiano le mappe per via delle auto che si guidano da sole. Personalmente, trovo le sue analisi interessantissime da leggere. Nell’ultimo anno ha […]